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The Stories of Obed Raggett was the first bi-lingual text written by an Australian Aboriginal writer.

Editor's note: 'These stories come to us from the oldest oral tradition on earth... these are the sorts of tales that were told, re-told, and are still told around campfires in the heart of Australia. Some of them Obed heard as a boy at Hermannsburg, from the older men and from his mother; others from stockmen, both European and Aboriginal, who knew the bush and jumped in boots and all to fetch a tale for the telling...'