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Odette Best Odette Best i(A84008 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 Who’s Your Mob? : An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography Shino Konishi , Julie Andrews , Odette Best , Brenda Croft , Stephen Kinnane , Greg Lehman , John Whop , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 24-26)

'In his 1968 Boyer Lectures, After the Dreaming, anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner lamented that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples had been omitted from narratives of the nation’s past. Contending that this omission was ‘a structural matter’, he likened Australian history to ‘a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the landscape’. He proposed that the kinds of stories which could bring Indigenous history into view for Australian readers would focus on the lives of individuals.' (Introduction)
1 3 True Odette Best , 2004 single work drama 'True' is contemporary Indigenous theatre which fuses one of the world's oldest cultures together with the latest in film technology. 'True' is the journey of three individuals questioning their personal and cultural identities, and understanding of their place in community.
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