Noel Blair Noel Blair i(A115152 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 Wondai, Murgon - Wondai area, Kingaroy - Murgon - Kilkivan - Woolooga area, Central West Queensland, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Jinibara
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1 y separately published work icon Man on a Mission : From Cherbourg to Lake Gkula Noel Blair , Brisbane : AndAlso Books , 2023 27352086 2023 single work autobiography

'Memoir of Uncle Noel Blair, who was born at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland in the 1940s.

'Uncle Noel Blair is a fighter. Born in the 1940s, he grew up at Cherbourg under ‘the Act’ – Queensland’s notoriously repressive legislation that controlled the daily life of Indigenous people.

'Uncle Noel fought with gloves in boxing rings and tents, and without gloves or rules whenever the harassment and insults of corrupt government and police became intolerable. He also fought to better help his people through legal work and social justice campaigns that are part of the long struggle to triumph over the brutality of racism in contemporary Australia.

'Uncle Noel Blair and the Jinibara people were legally recognised as the traditional owners and custodians of their Country in south-east Queensland around Woodford, opening up new pathways to justice and recognition of their culture – a journey from mission to Festival.

'Uncle Noel’s story inspires, and teaches. It is Jinibara truth-telling.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Eraritjaritjaka Albutjika : Longing to Return Home David Mowaljarlai , Gerald Quayle , Shane Phillips , Ngarla Kunoth , Annette Peardon , Eve Mumewa D. Fesl , Priscilla Boney , Hudson Boney , Brian Champion , Joe Burgoyne , Noel Blair , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), 1993 single work oral history
— Appears in: The Wailing : A National Black Oral History 1993; (p. 319-355)
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