of Technology for both her contribution to literature and in recognition of her work in the field of education. In 1979, she was awarded the Sixth Annual Oscar at the Micheaux Awards Ceremony, hosted by the US Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in the same year received the International Acting Award for the film Shadow Sisters. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1970, but returned the award in 1987 in protest at the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in order to make a political statement about the condition of her people. In 1985, she was named Aboriginal of the Year, by the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC, now NAIDOC), an honour bestowed by Indigenous people. In 1991, the commemorative plaque with her name on it was one of the first installed on Sydney Writers Walk. In 1992 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) awarded her an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Education recognising her contributions to literature and education. In 2006 the university renamed their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Support Unit as the Oodgeroo Unit in her honour. The university also has the Oodgeroo Scholarship Program which provides undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, she was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for her role as an "Influential Artist". In 2016 the Queensland Poetry Festival introduced an Indigenous program which included the inaugural Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. The electoral district of Oodgeroo created in the 2017 Queensland state electoral redistribution was named after her. Her work Poetry Municipal Gum (1960) "A Song of Hope" (1960) We are Going: Poems (1964) The Dawn is at Hand: Poems (1966) Ballad of the Totebrush (1966) The Past (1970) White Australia (1970) All One Race (1970) Freedom (1970) Then and Now (1970) Last of His Tribe (1970) My People: A Kath Walker collection (1970) No More Boomerang (1985) Then and now (1985) Kath Walker in China (1988) The Unhappy Race (1992 The Colour Bar (1990) Let Us Not Be Bitter (1990) Oodgeroo (1994) For children Stradbroke Dreamtime (1972) Father Sky and Mother Earth (1981) Little Fella (1986) The Rainbow Serpent (1988) Non fiction Towards a Global Village in the Southern Hemisphere (1989) The Spirit of Australia (1989) Australian Legends And Landscapes (1990) Australia's Unwritten History: More legends of our