Busted out Laughing: Dot Collard’s Story

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS Biography

“Noongar woman, Dot Collard is as natural a storyteller as she is an international actress. In this candid memoir she weaves together memories and stories centred around her family in Western Australia’s south-west. Native Welfare files reveal the pompous bureaucracy of the time, yet Dot’s people never lost heart. As a mother of nine children Dot immersed herself in family life. It easy not until her sixties that with characteristic courage, she launched a career as a theatre and television actress. Dot Collard is a national treasure. Busted out laughing is for anyone who believes in family and loves a good belly laugh.”

• vi, 106 p. [8] p. of plates : ill, chiefly col. ports. ; 22 cm. SCARCE #010424
• Collard, Dot
• Women, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Biography
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Biography
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Social life and customs
• Performing arts – Actors
• Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
• History – Biographies – Indigenous – Autobiographies
• South West Western Australia (SW WA SH50, SI50)