Aboriginal Australians

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  • LCSH, LC control no.: sh 85009602, accessed online 21-Feb-2025.

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Hierarchical terms

Aboriginal Australians

Equivalent terms

Aboriginal Australians

  • UF Aboriginals, Australian
  • UF Aborigines, Australian
  • UF Australian aboriginal people
  • UF Australian aboriginals
  • UF Australian aborigines
  • UF Australians, Aboriginal
  • UF Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians)
  • UF Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians)

Associated terms

Aboriginal Australians

525 Archival description results for Aboriginal Australians

525 results directly related Exclude narrower terms

FCAATSI report Victoria

Duplicated typescript report, two copies, one page each, by the State Secretary for Victoria, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (possibly Geraldine Briggs). Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides an update on the status of Aboriginal affairs in Victoria, specifically in relation to employment, housing, health, education, and youth.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Early decisions of the new government

Duplicated typescript report on decisions and actions taken during the first year of the Gough Whitlam-led federal Labor government. The report focuses on policies that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including the establishment of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, the appointment of Gordon Bryant as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, royalties paid to Aboriginal peoples living on reserves in the Northern Territory affected by mining development, and plans to establish an Aboriginal Land Fund. Report author is unknown, though it was possibly produced by an Australian Labor Party department. Also includes a table titled 'Purposes of proposed additional allocations to the States for 1972/73', in which the funding allocations for the six Australian states are categorised into housing, health, education, employment, special work projects and regional projects. Table includes previously authorised allocations.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

FCAATSI report Central Australia Northern Territory

Duplicated typescript report Joyce Clague (or Joyce Claugue), State Secretary for Central Australia and Northern Territory, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides information on a push for wage equality between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal employees, the need for mobile health clinics and other health services, a request for social service pensions, and other matters affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Central Australia and Northern Territory. The second leaf appears to be an attachment to the report but is inconsistently paginated (as 2). It argues for the urgent need for teachers educating Aboriginal children to receive special race relations training to combat prejudice and ignorance.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

One People of Australia League Ephemera

  • FVF269
  • File
  • 1970-1989

Leaflets, booklets, event notices and a statement produced by members of the One People of Australia League (OPAL).

OPAL (Organisation)

Legislative reform report

Duplicated typescript report by Jack Horner, Convenor, Legislative Reform, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Two copies, two pages each or four leaves total. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides updates on federal and state legislations affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Particularly singles out Queensland as the state in need of of further amendments to laws. Also contains information on Aboriginal Advisory Councils and Aboriginal land trusts, such as the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Brisbane Three Ephemera

  • FVF61
  • File
  • 1975

Ephemera relating to the Brisbane Three campaign. The Brisbane Three were Denis Walker, Lionel Fogarty (Lacey) and John Garcia.

Brisbane Three

Report of the Director to the Annual General Meeting of Sydney University Abschol

Duplicated typescript report by Neville Perkins, Abschol Convenor, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973, though the original date of the report is 12 October 1972. Includes a one-page preface that addresses conference delegates and introduces the report as an overview of the objectives and functioning of Sydney University Abschol.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Questions prepared for submission to candidates at public meetings or by correspondence

Duplicated typescript, black type on yellow paper, with questions prepared by the FCAATSI for submission to candidates at public meetings or by correspondence. Questions are divided into three categories relating to the federal government's responsibility for Aboriginal peoples; Aboriginal land ownership; and Aboriginal wages and employment opportunities. Also asks about the idea of conducting a referendum to amend Section 127 and Section 51 Paragraph XXVI of the Constitution due to discrimination against Aboriginal peoples. Signed by Pauline Pickford, Honorary Secretary.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

FCAATSI report Queensland

Duplicated typescript report, two pages, by Lambert McBride (Lambert George McBride), State Secretary for Queensland, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Dated 20 April 1973. Presented at the Sixteenth FCAATSI Annual Conference in Brisbane, 20-22 April 1973. Provides information on the The Aborigines Act 1971, public housing, and the establishment of the Legal Aid Service. There are two copies of the first page of the report.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

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