{"product_id":"2026200015831-secondhand-if-everyone-cared-autobiography-of-margaret-tucker-m-b-e","title":"If Everyone Cared: Autobiography Of Margaret Tucker M.B.E.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew voices in Australian history carry the moral weight and lived experience of Margaret Tucker M.B.E., a Yorta Yorta woman whose extraordinary life unfolded against the brutal backdrop of colonial dispossession and state-sanctioned control over Aboriginal lives. If Everyone Cared chronicles Tucker's journey from a childhood torn apart by government removal policies — making her one of the thousands of children now known as the Stolen Generations — through decades of resilience, activism, and profound personal dignity. With unflinching honesty and remarkable warmth, she recounts the hardships of domestic service, the pain of family separation, and her tireless work as a community advocate, ultimately becoming one of the most respected Aboriginal women of the twentieth century.\n\nA landmark work in Australian autobiography, this memoir stands as both a personal testimony and a searing indictment of the policies that shaped — and scarred — generations of First Nations people. Tucker's prose is direct and unhurried, carrying the quiet authority of a woman who has earned every word, and her story illuminates themes of identity, belonging, and the enduring strength of culture in the face of systemic erasure. A signed copy such as this — inscribed with Tucker's characteristic warmth and welcome — asks the reader a question that still resonates today: what kind of nation could we be, if everyone truly cared?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203265798363,"sku":"2026200015831-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b6babbee-1acd-44c1-ab0f-1ab63ee3955c.png?v=1788146924","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015831-secondhand-if-everyone-cared-autobiography-of-margaret-tucker-m-b-e","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}