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Kina, Lily

  • AU QU
  • Person

Lily Kina contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (Cherbourg) during the early 1930s.

Gaiarbau

  • AU NLA 58766165
  • Person
  • 1868-1968

Born in Kilcoy, Queensland. Died in a Salvation Army Home in Brisbane.

Gaiarbau contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (Cherbourg) during the early 1930s.

Crawford, Mrs

  • AU QU
  • Person

Mrs Crawford contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Kempsey (Burnt Bridge Mission) during the early 1930s.

Dixon, Mrs

  • AU QU
  • Person

Mrs Dixon contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Kempsey (Burnt Bridge Mission) during the early 1930s.

Semple, Mrs

  • AU QU
  • Person

Mrs Semple contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Kempsey (Burnt Bridge Mission) during the early 1930s.

Thursday Island Mission (Qld.)

  • AU NLA 72895987
  • Corporate body
  • 1884-1984

Established in 1884 by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Mission was situated on the South-West side of Thursday Island. The administration of the Mission was handed over to the State Government of Queensland around 1984. Since 1994 the Torres Strait Council has administered Thursday Island.

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. Queensland Branch

  • AU NLA 35102071
  • Corporate body

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia Queensland Branch (BWIU) (195?- ). Registered as the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers and Plasters of Australasia, Queensland.
Objectives - To uphold the right of combination of labor, and to improve, protect and foster the best interests of the members and to assist them to obtain their rights under industrial and social legislation; to regulate the conditions under which all members may be employed; to join with other organizations with similar objectives, to establish a fund to support trade unionists; to organize the education of the members; to publish a journal and to further any schemes to establish labor research bureaux or union newspapers or radio stations; to establish various benefits for members; to render legal and other assistance to members for the recovery of wages or compensation for injuries, to protect the interests of the trade in all its Branches, and to assist other trades by any legal method.
Publicists - See The Building Worker and the Official Trades Union Directory (Trades and Labor Council of Queensland).
Notes: Carpenters formed a union in Queensland as early as 1861, eventually forming the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australasia, Queensland Branch. Amalgamations led to changes of name in 1974 to Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners and Bricklayers of Australasia, Queensland Branch and in 1982 to the present name. The union is known not by its registered name but as the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, Queensland Branch The B.W.I.U. is part of the Queensland Building Trades Group which includes the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union, the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders Laborers' Federation and the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union.

Buchhorn, Richard, 1932-2022

  • AU NLA 35682954
  • Person
  • 1932-2022

Born in Glen Innes NSW, became a mining engineer. Ordained as a priest in 1960 and while serving in various parishes in NSW contributed to labour rights, anti-Vietnam, anti-apartheid, and social justice campaigns. Served as assistant secretary of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace from 1975 to 1978. Resigned from the priesthood in 1983. Later he and partner Lilla Watson worked for Aboriginal social justice and reconciliation in Brisbane.

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