Duplicated typescript. First page contains an account of police interactions with members of the Indigenous community in Townsville on the night of New Year's Eve 1971 and early morning of New Year's Day 1972. Details allegations of racism and prejudice on the part of the police in these interactions. Signed off by J. McGinness (Joseph Daniel McGinness), President of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, January 1972. This document is accompanied by a duplicated typescript letter, two pages, dated 13 January 1972, addressed to the proprietor of the Terminus Hotel in South Brisbane, Queensland. This letter details an alleged incident of racial discrimination on the night of 23 December 1971 against a couple of patrons, Colin and Val Blaw. The letter is signed off by Roy Hopkins, Secretary. A typescript addition at the bottom of the second page of the letter notes a lack of reply to the letter and calls for supporters to attend a sit-in at the Terminus Hotel on a forthcoming Monday night, possibly 14 January 1972.

Duplicated typescript report, black type on blue paper, dated 13th - 15th August, 1965. On 9 August 1965, following reports from the press and Charles Perkins that several Aboriginal Australians were arrested in Walgett for attempting to gain admittance to the lounge of the Luxury Theatre, a meeting was coordinated by Ray Peckham, of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, at the home of Charles Perkins. The meeting was attended by members of Student Action for Aborigines, New Settler League, Tranby Cooperative College, Aborigines Progressive Association, Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and the Union of Australian Women. One of the outcomes of the meeting was to have a delegation proceed to Walgett in New South Wales. This report is from the delegation's visit. Unknown author; possibly produced by the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement.

Duplicated typescript report with handwritten pen amendments. Written by Joe McGinness, President, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. It reports on his four-week trip to the Northern Territory from August to September 1970. He visited Darwin and Wattie Creek, and reports on the various issues affecting Aboriginal communities, including land rights and wage disputes.

Duplicated circular letter from the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders titled 'Land rights - an urgent appeal', dated 1 September 1977, and sent from Woden, Australian Capital Territory. Takes issue with the negative impact of uranium mining in Australia on Aboriginal communities, particularly in the Alligator Rivers Region and East Alligator Region. Appeals for support and donations to launch an education and advertising campaign to raise awareness about land rights issues. Mentions the recent formation of an Anti-Uranium Sub-Committee of FCAATSI. Signed off by Marcia Langton, General Secretary, FCAATSI; Jim Keefe, Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; Tom Uren, Deputy Leader of the Opposition; George Georges, Opposition Whip in the Senate; Cyril Primmer, Australian Labor Party Senator for Victoria; Jim Roulston, Vice President Australian Council of Trade Unions; Allen, Sorrensen, Australian Conservation Foundation; Penny West, Campaign Against Racial Exploitation; Pam Hartgerink, Friends of the Earth; Frnak Muller, Movement Against Uranium Mining; and Ian Macdonald, Executive Member, National Youth Council of Australia.

Typescript pages of activities of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement relating to aspects of their constitution. Each 'Commission' has a policy and associated action programme. The commissions, each one page, include: Commission on wages and employment; Commission on legislative reform; Commission on fringe settlements; and Commission on education. The last page concerns reserves, missions and settlements; tribal reserves; and community development. Unknown author. Undated but likely from 1963.

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Typescript leaflet from the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, distributed as part of a campaign to abolish the Trust Fund system in Queensland. The leaflet is a follow-on from a previous leaflet distributed from October 1970, when the FCAATSI decided if the Commonwealth Banking Corporation did not dissociate itself from the Trust Fund system by 21 March 1971, they would transfer their business to another bank. This newer leaflet advises the Commonwealth Bank did not dissociate itself and the FCAATSI has transferred their business as a result. Again they ask supporters to do the same. Includes a section that can be torn off and completed by supporters, then mailed to the campaign headquarters.

Draft typescript, with handwritten corrections and notes in pen, written after the eighth Annual Conference on Aboriginal Affairs held in Canberra from 16 to 18 April 1965. It outlines the discriminatory sections of the Australian constitution (Section 127 and Section 51, sub-section xxvi). Unknown author.

Duplicated typescript of the constitution of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, as amended by the annual general meeting in Canberra in April 1964.

Documents, leaflets, newspaper cuttings and correspondence on various topics, subject files, banners, badges, posters, periodicals, photographic material, constitution and programmes, rules, minutes, agendas, cashbooks, reports of local branches and Queensland Branch of Union of Australian Women, newsletters.

People in the photographs include: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Ruth Wallace, Muriel Callofe [? Spelling], Joyce Lightning, C. Smith, M McBride, Sandra McGinness, Margaret Macdonald, Kerrie Davis, Gladys O’Shane, Lynette Macdonald, Margaret O’Shane, Doris Webb, Pat O’Shane, Janet Webb, Josie Dyer, and Marcia Langton.

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