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Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council (Brisbane, Qld.)

  • AU NLA 72893626
  • Corporate body
  • 1970

The Aboriginal and Islanders Council, also, known as the Brisbane Tribal Council.
Objectives - To assist Aboriginals and Islanders in coping with all aspects of life in and around Brisbane, to promote the well-being of Aboriginals and Islanders, to encourage the education of Aborigines and Islanders, to preserve the cultures of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia and of Torres Strait Islanders and to provide premises for the Council.

Cross, Manfred Douglas, 1929-

  • AU NLA 35994335
  • Person
  • 1929-2024

Manfred Douglas Cross was born on 12 August 1929 in Brisbane. He studied at the University of Queensland before becoming a Queensland state public servant. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as a Labor member for the federal parliamentary seat of Brisbane in 1961. Retired in February 1990. He died in 2024.

Women's Community Aid Association

  • AU NLA 36536054
  • Corporate body
  • 1973-

Women's Community Aid Association (1973-).
Objectives - To establish a women's centre in Brisbane to provide education programmes and resources aimed at changing the sexist nature of society and to provide support and help for women with immediate problems including educational, legal, health, information and counselling services.
Publicists - J. Abbs, Gill Calvert, Jane Calvert, Jennie Harvie, Ruth Matchett, Barbara Wertheim.
Notes: The Association was responsible for the establishment of Women's House in 1973. The Women's Community Aid Association was a Brisbane-based feminist organisation founded in 1974 to advocate and agitate for women's rights, and provide health, counselling and other services to women in Brisbane.

Watson, Lilla J. (Lilla Josephine), 1940-

  • US DLC n91102204
  • Person
  • 1940-

Lilla Watson (Gangulu), visual artist, activist and educator, was born in 1940 and grew up on the Dawson River in Queensland. In 1979 she became the first Aboriginal person to be appointed as a tutor by The University of Queensland Watson also worked for UQ as a lecturer in Aboriginal Welfare Studies and later served as an appointed member of the University Senate. She was also the Inaugural President of the Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency, a founding member of the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association and Vice President of the Aboriginal and Islander Independent School Board, Acacia Ridge. She has acted as a consultant and a member of working groups, Panels and selection committees for many Government and non-Government organisations.

Australia Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

  • US DLC n 50069244
  • Corporate body
  • 1972-1990

On March 5 1990 the Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal Development Commission merged to become the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

Australia Aboriginal Development Commission

  • AU NLA 35576169
  • Corporate body
  • 1977-1990

The Council for Aboriginal Development was formed in 1977 and was a formal advisory body to the Commonwealth Government on programs and policies affected the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In 1980 the functions of the Council for Aboriginal Development were taken over by the Aboriginal Development Commission. On 5 March 1990 the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal Development Commission merged to become the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

Praed, Rosa Caroline, 1851-1935

  • AU NLA 36572205
  • Person
  • 1851-1935

Rosa Caroline Murray-Prior was born on 27 March 1851 at Bromelton on the Logan River, Queensland. Daughter of Thomas Lodge Murray Prior and Matilda, nee Harpur. She began writing poems and short stories as a child. She married Arthur Campbell Bulkley Praed on 29 October 1872. She moved to Torquay, Devon, in the 1920s. Her original title Logleat of Kooralbyn was used for the later Australian edition but Bentley published her novel in 1881 as Policy and Passion. Rosa died on 10 April 1935.

McKinley, Ian, 1929-2020

  • AU NLA 35512812
  • Person
  • 1929-2020

Ian William McKinley was born on 21 August 1929 at Mackay. He was a music lecturer and composer. He was a University of Queensland graduate in science and arts. In June 2007 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to music as an educator, singer, organist and composer. He died on 20 May 2020.

Gwyther, Ross, 1949-

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1949-

A graduate of The University of Queensland, Ross Gwyther had a long career as a geophysicist at the University and the CSIRO, followed by ten years as an organiser with the National Tertiary Education Union. He retired in 2013. He has been actively involved in the labour, environment and peace movements for over 50 years. He was a founding committee member of both the Anti-Uranium Campaign in Brisbane in 1976, and People for Nuclear Disarmament in 1983. Since then, he has played prominent roles in the campaign groups Just Peace and the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network. He has also served on the management committee of the Brisbane Labour History Association, and with the retired trade unionists' group, Vintage Reds.

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