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

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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

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)

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

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 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

Elwyn Flint Papers

  • UQFL173
  • Collection
  • [196-]

This collection comprises written documents collected by Flint mostly as part of a long term research project in the 1960s, known as the Queensland Speech Survey, during which Flint recorded traditional Aboriginal languages. This collection also documents the Yuulngu (Gupapuyngu) language. Other parts of the collection include journal articles of languages, correspondence with field-linguists and staff from academic institutions, Indonesian material, and documentation of the English spoken by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Australian and regional pidgins, "migrants" and "mother-tongue" people from different ages, regions or socio-economic groups.

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 people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Flint, Elwyn Henry

Education for Aborigines

This is a typescript of an article that was authorised by J. Horner, Hon. Secretary of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (AAF). It is a contribution by an unnamed member of the AAF, who teaches in a country High School. The article highlights the educational problems for aboriginal children at the time and includes statistical information.

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