Talk:David Unaipon

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do they have pictures?

unfortunately it wld appear so, does anyone have a better pic? → bsnowball 14:57, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Widely known?[edit]

He was the most widely known Aborigine in Australia

  • Do we have a cite for that? I'm reasonably well informed, but the first I ever heard of him was when the $50 note came out. Maybe this says more about me than about him ... -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 04:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
G'day Jack. If you think a cite is needed, (perhaps for safety's sake it should be) use this.
'David Ngunaitponi, then aged fifteen, evinced the same qualities as a lad that were later to make him famous as an adult. .. this man of manifold talents who was destined to be widely acclaimed as a genius, and who was to become Australia's best-known Aborigine.' Graham Jenkin, Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, The Story of the Lower Murray lakes Tribes,(1979)1985 Rigby reprint p.185. I'm on my downunder leg of my tour and picked this up a month ago.Nishidani (talk) 04:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Separatist?[edit]

What does "making an attempt to provide a separate territory for Aboriginals in Central and Northern Australia" mean? Did he actively promote a rebellion, lobby for an indignenous reserve, or what?124.197.15.138 (talk) 06:28, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He certainly wasn't citing violent rebellion, as far as I can see. Unaipon was quite conservative in many ways and although I haven't seen a specific source that expands on the reference you give, I would guess that he was looking for an Indigenous reserve rather than a sovereign nation. --Roisterer (talk) 07:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A small point of accuracy[edit]

Are we able to describe his interest in perpetual motion in less romantic terms? In an encyclopedic article, it seems unsound to describe investigations into perpetual motion as an attempt to harness its secrets. There's good reason that the mainstream position is that perpetual motion offers nothing that can be harnessed. Of course there's nothing wrong with maintaining an interest in the proposition of perpetual motion. I certainly do—it's an interesting idea! But until we see any worthy results, we must consider it physically invalid. David Unaipon was clearly an intelligent man, and his interest in perpetual motion does nothing to diminish that. But let's not repeatedly describe perpetual motion as holding secrets that are waiting to be uncovered, even if various people throughout history have imagined that it might be. Aboctok (talk) 15:37, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's what the sources state and was what Unaipon was trying to do. He was not just "maintaining an interest", he was actually "obsessed with discovering the secret of perpetual motion"[1]. Even into the 1960s a theoretical basis for perpetual motion was being seriously investigated by some scientists and Unaipon was self trained, so it is to his credit that he investigated it as well. Wayne (talk) 16:21, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Patents[edit]

I have found the sheep-shearer patent, but no sign of the other 18. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:55, 10 July 2016 (UTC).[reply]

=Vintage Australian Music[edit]

Unaipon MarchTradimus (talk) 08:28, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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