
Kevin
Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first
play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia. Born in
Condoblin, NSW, of Wiradjuri, English and Irish heritage, he grew up on
reserves and fringe settlements, beginning to work itinerantly at the age of
fourteen. In 1957, when he was 23, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for
the domestic murder of his non-Aboriginal...