Alice Eather
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Alice Pearl Daiguma Eather (1988/1989 – 4 June 2017) was an Aboriginal Australian slam poet, environmental campaigner, and teacher.
Early life and education
Alice Pearl Daiguma Eather was born in 1988 or 1989[1] in Brisbane, Queensland, to Helen Djimbarrwala Willams and Michael Eather, an artist and gallery-owner with European ancestors who arrived on the Second Fleet.[2]
She was educated in Brisbane.[1]
Career
Eather moved to Maningrida, Northern Territory to become the first Ndjebbana-speaking Aboriginal teacher, and performed as a slam poet.[1][3]
In writing, she contributed poetry to the anthology Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia (2018), edited by Anita Heiss.[2]
Activism
In 2013 Eather started Protect Arnhem Land, an anti-fracking campaign group against Paltar Petroleum.[4] It was successful in convincing the Northern Territory government to suspend the application pending agreement with the local population; further campaigning eventually led to Paltar withdrawing the application in 2016.[4]
Recognition
In 2014 Eather received the Northern Territory Young Achiever's Environment Award for her work in preventing oil exploration of Arnhem Land.[3]
She appeared in the ABC television programme The Word: Rise of the Slam Poets.[5]