For five years, he was editor of the Aboriginal periodical Identity and helped many Aboriginal writers. Jack returned to Perth, joined the Aboriginal Advancement Council and began agitating for changes in government policies.

Over the years, he became further enraged by the injustices of an apartheid system.

The policy at that time was that Aboriginal people were not allowed in the towns after 6pm, but Jack refused to leave the streets and was imprisoned for four days. He began to write Aboriginal words and learned the Bibbulmun language. Worru came from the same area as Jack's father, and Jack loved to listen to Worru's stories and songs. He was influenced by Worru, whom he met at the Moore River Native Settlement. He worked as an itinerant labourer, windmill man, horse breaker, boundary rider, drover and stockman.Īt 14, outraged and indignant at the treatment of Aboriginal people by white landowners, Jack began to write poetry as a means of expression. Jack always had a fascination with words and when he was 10 he preferred a dictionary to a story book.Īfter his father was killed in an accident when Jack was just out of primary school, Jack moved north in search of work. Born in Perth in 1917, Jack spent his childhood in Yarloop about 140 kilometres to the south. Jack Davis, was a notable Australian 20th Century playwright and poet, also an Indigenous rights campaigner.

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