AustLit

'John Muk Muk Burke was born in Narrandera, New South Wales, in 1946. His mother was Wiradjuri and his father was Irish. He left school, aged 15, and worked at several jobs before entering the Auckland Teachers College in New Zealand in 1967. In 1992 he joined the Centre for Aboriginal and Islander Studies at the Northern Territory University, as lecturer in history and English literature'  (Introduction)

'Fans of Ruby Langford Ginibi will not like everything I am going to say about her third book, My Bundjalung People, but she is 'an established author' now and her work demands more than a few patronising comments from a 'white' (actually more of a pinky-purple) writer and historian.' (Introduction)