Circular letter and newsletter produced by the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights.

Typescript letter, black type on pink paper, addressed to the Secretary of the Union of Australian Women (UAW) Queensland branch, signed by Len Watson, Education Officer for the Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council Brisbane. Requests the support of the UAW for a campaign coordinated by the National Tribal Council against the Aborigines' and Torres Strait Islanders' Affairs Act of 1965

Duplicated typescript document, 25 leaves, unpaginated, compiled by the QCCL and released on 28 September 1982. The document takes issue with the Commonwealth Games Act 1982 and the powers it affords police and specially deputised persons; the attempts of the Queensland Government to ban street marches not approved by the Queensland Police; and the lack of payment of award wages on Aboriginal Australian reserves. Also includes political cartoons and newspaper cutting collages throughout.

The following is listed on the index page, after the cover page:

1. Commonwealth Games Act Commentary by Q.C.C.L.
2. Correspondence to Prime Minister Fraser [Malcolm Fraser] re Games Act
3. Commonwealth Games - A Survival Kit prepared by D.C. McKelvey [David Chris McKelvey], Lecturer in Law, University of Queensland
4. "[Land Rights:] Are You Game? Protest and Sport in Queensland", Legal Service Bulletin, August 1982 by Peter Applegarth
5. Criticism of Police Minister Hinze's [Russ Hinze] refusal to gazette Orders-in-Council and to specify "prohibited things" under the Act
6. The Police Commissioner's March Ban Declaration
7. The Police Department's Double Standard
8. Editorial, Telegraph, 23.9.82, comparing the Games Act with South African assembly laws
9. Queensland street march laws and peaceful public assembly - a recent example
10. Liberal Party Director says Games Act "basis of a police state"
11. No case for games laws
12. Existing laws more than adequate
13. Australia the big loser in Brisbane

The following is listed on the same index page, under the heading 'Award wages':

1. Commentary on reserve wages by Q.C.C.L.
2. Letter to Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (state) Tomkins [Ken Tomkins]
3. Letter to (federal) Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Wilson [Ian Wilson]
4. Letter from Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (state), Porter [Charles Porter]
5. Letter from Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs, Tomkins
6. D.A.I.A. [Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs] Wages to Reserve Aborigines

Materials, primarily typescript, some signed and some with handwritten notes, relating to Fair Play Committee, an organisation opposed to holding the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, due to laws affecting civil liberties. Materials comprise leaflets, newspaper cuttings, press releases, a telegram, and a newsletter. Also includes correspondence between Fair Play and Amnesty International Australian Section (now Amnesty International Australia), the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, the Australian Government, the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, National Sports Council of Tanzania, and Action for Aboriginal Rights.

Half fold brochure, black type on white paper. Details the different ways Queensland laws negatively impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, such as in the areas of censorship, alcohol consumption, management of property, wages, mining and land rights. Takes particular issue with the Aborigines Act 1971 and the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971. Text is preceded by an illustration of what appears to be the silhouettes of two Australian Aboriginal people standing on a shore, watching as a ship approaches. Undated.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, articles, cards, photographs, publications, typescripts, manuscripts, booklets, notebooks, diaries, theatre programmes, agendas, constitutions, minutes, reports, receipts, accounts, legislation, research material, notes, press statements, propaganda, submissions, tapes, posters, plans, family history, map, Aboriginal flag.
Bulk of papers from 1961 to 1982.

Handwritten histories written by Paul Tripcony and photographs relating to Moongalba and the people who lived there. Mostly undated; date range of Paul Tripcony's life has been used.

Item 1: History of the Aboriginal peoples "who inhabited Moreton Island (Moolgunpin)", 2 pages, 15 x 20 cm, undated. Written in pencil with envelope attached; on the envelope, written in blue biro is 'History of Moongalba Papers'. Undated.

Item 2: Envelope, 10 x 23 cm; with handwritten pencil notes - on the front 'Jebellum and Coonoongar'; on the reverse 'Flaked stone implements and Goondoo aboriginal magic stone'. Undated.

Item 3: 'Moongalba : birth place of a Great Chief'. Handwritten, in blue biro, 9 leaves (8 with handwritten numbers). Undated. This is an account of the history of Moongalba and it's inhabitants with hand drawn map on the reverse of page one showing the forteen locations from North Hill to Capembah or Big Hill:

1. Mook-kin or Charles Moreton ;
2. Gurriwirribah and Maudie ;
3. John Lifou and his wife Dungo-lee-bah [sic. Aggie Dung-lee-bah] ;
4. Nungelly ;
5. Eendelly or Mary Compiegne ;
6. Jack Nufong and wife Maggie ;
7. George Finnock and wife Kindarra ;
8. Sydney Rollands ;
9. Peter Graham ;
10. Rose Martin or Nuningha ;
11. Moongalba School ;
12. Teachers Residence ;
13. Moongalba Cemetry ;
14. Sam Rollands and wife Miboo.
    Detailed accounts of: what was grown, what was caught and eaten from the ocean which includes the skills of Sam Rollands in netting dugong; information about Nook-kin including his request to be transferred to Barambah (Cherbourg); the sort of artifacts collected by Paul Tripcony ; letter sticks ; tribal ceremonies ; and the arts of net making and basket making. People mentioned include: Nu-ah-ju (Billy Cassin), Willie McKenzie, Nungellie (sister to Eendellie), Grannie Finnock (Kindarra), Rose Martin (Nuningha), Granny Sydney Rollands.

Item 4: 'Australian Aboriginal Legend of the Lightnings Playground on Moreton Island (Moolgumpin). Handwritten in pencil; 4 leaves, 25 cm.

Item 5: 'Australian Aboriginal Legend of the Lightnings Playground on Moreton Island'. Handwritten in pencil, 5 pages, 25 cm.

Item 6: 'Grannies Moongalba History'. Handwritten, in pencil. List of fourteen 'grannies'.

Item 7: Handwritten, in pencil, account of Koureyabba or whispering sands. 1 leaf, 28 cm ; on the back of a Golden Circle juice label. Attached to this are two slips of paper with handwritten notes.

Item 8: Newspaper cutting of article 'Popular native personality : Sam Rollands, of Muyora, Dead : Dugong fishing expert' by Tom Welsby, extracted from The Telegraph, 28 Feb 1936. 1 leaf ; 25 cm

Item 9: Photograph, black and white, 20.5 x 13.5 cm, undated, of Paul Tripcony, aged about 22, inscribed to 'Dear Vince with best wishes from Paul'. In brown presentation folder, 30 x 19.5 cm, with name of photographer on front cover: Sidney Riley, Queen Street Brisbane.

Item 10: Photograph, black and white, 13 x 8 cm, undated, of Sydney Rollands. Written in blue biro on reverse: "Paul Tripcony's Grandmother - Sydney Rollands, mother of Sam Rollands last of the Dugong hunters of Stradbroke Island. Sydney, daughter of Nughie tribe - last of the full bloods born on Moreton Islands (no record of birth)".

Item 11: Photograph, black and white, 10 x 8 cm, undated, of Sydney Rollands. Written in blue biro on reverse: "Sydney Rollands - last full blood aborigine born on Moreton Island - mother of Sam Rollands last of Dugong hunters on Stradbroke Island".

Item 12: Photograph, black and white, 9 x 16 cm, of 'Early Amity'. Beneath photograph, on right-hand side, handwritten in pencil is: Ruddle- Foster Studio Valley Brisbane -copy. In light brown presentation folder, 19 x 23 cm.

Item 13: Photograph, black and white, 9 x 16 cm. Handwritten in pen below photograph: 'Fernandez Gonzales and family. Gonzales on left with walking stick. Dugon fillets in foreground'. Beneath photograph, handwritten in pencil is: Ruddle- Foster Studio Valley Brisbane -copy. In light brown presentation folder, 19 x 23 cm.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Typescript (photocopy) of address given 7 May, 1948.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains brief and broad mentions of burial rites, initiation ceremonies, and cannibalism. This resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Certificates and testimonials, outgoing and incoming correspondence, photographs, financial papers, booksellers' catalogues and newsletters, publishers' announcements, political and pressure group leaflets, maps of Moreton Bay Islands, notices and plans of Moreton Bay land for sale, newspaper cuttings, subject files on people and organisations, periodicals, notes and notebooks.
Most papers cover the period 1950s-1970s.

Album of 52 albumen prints, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Captions include a photographic number and the name of the photographic studio 'Kerry, Photo, Sydney'. Handwritten on the mounting boards are pencil captions, often with less information than the captions on the images and the photographic number supplied by Kerry crossed out and alternative numbering provided. The album itself has been bound and has a handwritten spine title stuck to it "Australian Aboriginal ceremonies". It looks to have been added to the album at a later date, thus not the original title of the album. Photographs are most likely taken between 1875 and 1930.

The images are of Australian Aboriginal people in what appears to be mostly staged poses for Australian Aboriginal ceremonies, corroborees, dance, tracking, fights as well as photographs of various individuals. Some of the photographs have painted backdrops. Some of the people in the photographs were members of "Meston's Wild Australia" (also know as Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show"). There are some photographs that were most likely taken in Sydney in December 1892 by Charles Kerry. This is based on the beach setting and the backdrops being identical to those photographs for Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show".

Listed below are the contents of the album. The number corresponds to the page number in the album; the title is what appears on the image itself; and in brackets is the Kerry Studio photograph number and the alternative number if provided. Information in square brackets is provided by the processing archivist:

1. Aboriginal ceremony. Death of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2804 / 136). --
2. Leaving the bora ceremony (Kerry, Photograph number 2616). --
3. Crossing the mystic figures (Kerry, Photograph number 2614 / 137). --
4. Approaching the kings ground (Kerry, Photograph number 2615 / 138). --
5. Aboriginal ceremony "The sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2598 / 139). --
6. Aboriginal ceremony "Lying in wait" (Kerry, Photograph number 2608 / 140). --
7. Aboriginal ceremony "Death of the wild boar" (Kerry, Photograph number 2603 / 141). --
8. Aboriginal ceremony "Arrival of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2605 / 142). --
9. Aboriginal bora. "Waiting the decision of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2617 / 143). --
10. Aboriginal ceremony. "A duel to the death" (Kerry, Photograph number 2610 / 144). --
11. Aborigines worshiping figure of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2597 / 145). --
12. Arrival of the novices [unable to decipher writing on photograph] (Kerry, Photograph number 2611 / 146). --
13. Aboriginal ceremony "Warriors in ambush" (Kerry, Photograph number 2600). --
14. Aboriginal ceremony "Opening the Bora" (Kerry, Photograph number 2609 / 147). --
15. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the wild bull" (Kerry, Photograph number 2599 / 148). --
16. Aboriginal corroboree "A battle" (Kerry, Photograph number 2586 / 149). --
17. Aboriginal ceremony "Following the footsteps of the deity" (Kerry, Photograph number 2606 / 150). --
18. Waiting for instructions ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2612 / 151). --
19. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2584). --
20. Aboriginal ceremony, "The Bora tree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2607 / 152). --
21. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the Alligator" (Kerry, Photograph number 2601/ 153). --
22. Aboriginal ceremony, "Gathering wild bird eggs" (Kerry, Photograph number 2602 / 154). --
23. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2585 / 155). --
24. Aboriginal corroboree "Healing the sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2588 / 156). --
25. [Writing indecipherable] "Drafting sheep" (Kerry, Photograph number 2587 / 157). --
26. Aboriginals tracking ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2583 / 158). --
27. Corroboree Austn Aborigines [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1360 / 159). --
28. "Wermugga Dance" Austn Aboriginals [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1361 / 160). --
29. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1388 / 161). --
30. Group fighting men [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1391 / 162). --
31. Bora Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1390). --
32. Aboriginal Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1367). --
33. Fish Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1393 / 163). --
34. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1378 / 164). --
35. Wermugga Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1392 / 165). --
36. Aboriginals & Black Tracker (Kerry, Photograph number 1389 / 166). --
37. [Writing indecipherable on photograph] Group of Northern Territory natives (Kerry, Photograph number 1368). --
38. An Aboriginal fight (Kerry, Photograph number 2553). --
39. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2162 / 167). --
40. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2160). --
41. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2161). --
42. Darling R. natives (Kerry, Photograph number 141). --
43. Aboriginal climbing tree (Kerry, Photograph number 2126 / 168). --
44. Aboriginal spearing fish (Kerry, Photograph number 2125 / 169). --
45. Native climbing with vine (Kerry, Photograph number 535). --
46. "Wharangoo". Aboriginal, Tenterfield District [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1989 / 170). --
47. "Borree", Aboriginal Chief, Jervis Bay (Kerry, Photograph number 2013). --
48. "Yenohan". Girl, Tumut Tribe, N.S.W. (Kerry, Photograph number 1899 / 171). --
49. Aboriginal women [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1914 / 172). --
50. Aboriginal girl, Brungle [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1913 / 173). --
51. Aboriginal warrior, Bellinger River (Kerry, Photograph number 2014). --
52. Aboriginal with Derri Head dress (Kerry, Photograph number 1371 / 174).

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that photographs may contain images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions. The descendants' request was that the subjects of the photos be recognised as Wailwan. None of the descendants expressed any desire to censor or withdraw the photos from general viewing. In particular, women should be cautious when viewing the image as it includes some aspects of traditional Men's Business.