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Hyllus Maris

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She travelled to London in 1977 to study social policy and community development with sociologist Richard Hauser, having won a Commonwealth scholarship, before returning to Melbourne where she continued her community work.
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She also wrote and published short stories, including "Concrete Box", "Joey Comes to the City" and "The Way Forgotten", and poetry, including "Spiritual Song of the Aborigine".
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until 1939, when Maris' parents participated in the Cummeragunja walk-off, a protest against the management of the reserve. They then settled at "The Flat" in the
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and Yorta Yorta man. Both of her parents were prominent community activists; Maris was the third of their nine children. The family lived on the
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in Melbourne. She worked for the council as a liaison officer and in 1973 helped to set up the
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This article was published: in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18 , 2012
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She was later chair of the Green Hills Foundation, which in 1983 helped to establish
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In 1970 Maris, along with her mother and sister, was one of the founders of the
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of the 1970s and 1980s, a poet, an educator and an award-winning scriptwriter.
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Dhuuluu-Yala: To Talk Straight - Publishing Indigenous Literature
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Inside Black Australia : an anthology of Aboriginal poetry
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established an annual memorial lecture in her honour in 1999.
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Paperbark : a collection of Black Australian writings
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FAW Patricia Weickhardt Award to an Aboriginal Writer
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Hyllus Maris in the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll
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Index

Aboriginal Australian
Yorta Yorta
Aboriginal rights movement
Echuca
Victoria
Yorta Yorta
Wiradjuri
Wurundjeri
Cummeragunja Reserve
Mooroopna-Shepparton
Victoria
National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
Fitzroy
Alma Thorpe
Bruce McGuinness
Queensland
Worawa Aboriginal College
Frankston
Healesville
Sonia Borg
Women of the Sun
Banff Television Festival
AWGIE
FAW Patricia Weickhardt Award to an Aboriginal Writer
Kew
Melbourne
Ardmona
La Trobe University

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