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)