{"product_id":"lowitja-the-authorised-biography-of-lowitja-odonoghue-9781761065583","title":"Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognizable Indigenous leaders\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'I am sometimes identified as one of the \"success stories\" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel I had been deprived of love and the ability to love in return. Like Lily, my mother, I felt totally powerless. And I think this is where the seeds of my commitment to human rights and social justice were sown.' Lowitja O'Donoghue \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lowitja O'Donoghue is a truly great Australian. She is a former Australian of the Year and was the inaugural chair ATSIC. She has represented Australia's Indigenous people at UN forums in Geneva and New York and had Australia become voted to become a republic she would have been a contender to become Australia's first president. This long-awaited authorized biography of arguably the most recognized Indigenous woman in Australia is compellingly written by journalist Stuart Rintoul with Lowitja's full cooperation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2001 a bitter controversy arose over whether Lowitja had been 'stolen' as a child. There has never been any doubt that she had been handed over to missionaries at the United Aborigines Mission in Oodnadatta and was thereafter completely cut off from her mother and her culture, but the circumstances of her arrival at the mission were not precisely known. Stuart Rintoul, who was then a journalist at \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e, accompanied Lowitja back to Central Australia to search for answers. This biography completes the journey into Lowitja's life and the challenging history of her times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen \u0026amp; Unwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781761065583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392","brand":"Past Forward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42148892442805,"sku":"9781761065583","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_76f45a55-84f6-4b5a-8d1c-5ff80373332a.jpg?v=1653486186","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lowitja-the-authorised-biography-of-lowitja-odonoghue-9781761065583","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}