Making Change Happen

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Lee Frost

Abstract

Heather Goodall, Anti-Apartheid activist and historian has written an account of the life of Kevin Cook, not so much a biography as a portrait of a man whose involvement in Aboriginal affairs since the 1970s defines the term ‘mover and shaker’. Originally begun as a history project for the Rona Tranby Oral History Trust, this collaborative work tells a story about the politics and people of that time and the ground-breaking achievements that occurred with ‘Cookie’, as he was known, as a central player. The themes raised encompass racism, employment discrimination, feminism, the politics of liberation and in particular the long struggle of Aboriginal activism through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, to the present day.

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Frost, L. (2015). Making Change Happen. NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 1(1), 24-27. https://doi.org/10.5130/.v1i1.1390
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