Flick, Isabel Ann (1928 - 2000)

Isabel Flick grew up in a camp in northern New South Wales, and worked on health, education and other social issues across the state. She helped establish Aboriginal housing in Collarenebri, New South Wales. She was a recipient of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community. Together with her sister Rose, she fought a long battle for the protection of the carved trees at the Collymongle Bora (male initiation) ground, northern New South Wales. The last four years before her death she lived in Gunnedah, New South Wales. She regularly travelled to Sydney to teach Aboriginal history at the Tranby Aboriginal College where she was on the Board of Directors.

Books

• Chittick, L. and Fox, T., Travelling with Percy: A South Coast Journey, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1997, 202 pp. [ Details... ]
• Flick, Isabel and Goodall, Heather, Isabel Flick : the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, N.S.W., 2004, 270 pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• 'Flick, Isabelle', Dawn, vol. 16, no. 9, 1967. [ Details... ]
• 'Flick, Isabel', March, 1986. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Goodall, Heather, 'Obituaries: Isabel Ann Flick', Sydney Morning Herald, no. 21 March 2000, p. 42. [ Details... ]

See also

• Inard Oongali: Women’s Journey, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Service Aboriginal Heritage Division, 1999. [ Details... ]
• Goodall, Heather, 'Mourning, Remembrance and the Politics of Place: A study in the significance of Collarenebri Aboriginal Cemetery', in Trans forming cultures, University Technology Sydney, 2002, http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/goodall/mourning/index.html. [ Details... ]
• Goodall, Heather, Invasion to embassy : land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972, Allen & Unwin in association with Black Books, St. Leonards, N.S.W., 1996, 421 pp. [ Details... ]
• Greenfield, C. and Williams, P., 'Bicentennial Preliminaries: Aboriginal Women, Newspapers and the Politics of Culture', Hecate, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 77-79, 101-102. [ Details... ]
• Kovacic, Leonarda, 'Cataloguing culture : in search of the origins of written records, material culture and oral histories of the Gamaroi, northern New South Wales', PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts, 2001, 676 pp. [ Details... ]
• Rintoul, Stuart., The wailing : a national Black oral history, William Heinemann, Port Melbourne, 1993, 422 pp. [ Details... ]