Item F3686 - Brisbane Commonwealth Games land rights protests

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F3686

Title

Brisbane Commonwealth Games land rights protests

Date(s)

  • 1981-1982. (Creation)

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Extent and medium

1 film reel (26 min.) : some sd., col. ; 8 mm.

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Non-profit organisation. Promotes socialist literature. Based in West End, Brisbane.

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Original Super8 film of protests by Aboriginal Australians before and during the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Footage by Ian Curr and Lachlan Hurse. Accompanied by DVD copy.

Contents:
Section A
First rally, 3 Aug 1981
Tent Embassy King George Square; speaker Cheryl Buchanon

Section B
Roma Street Forum
Speakers include Phil Perrier, G Gen

Section C
March up Turbot Street
1982 Commonwealth Games sign
Kooris support Murris
Adelaide St March (silent)
Boomerang Tours Bus
Black control of Aboriginal affairs – Land rights ban
Abolish QLD Acts
Land Rights chanting and banners and people looking on in Adelaide Street
Sit down and bystanders
Adelaide and George Streets

Section D
Musgrave Park Tent City 1982 protests
Left arts
Preparing to march from Garden City, final instructions
Approach to Games site over freeway
Police blockade
QEII in distance
Confrontation with police
Sit down
Arrests begin
Land rights flags
Media, including Aboriginal film crew
Special branch

Section E
Roma Street Forum
Speakers include: Kay Saunders, Axe Fraser, N. Bonner, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (speech and poem) Mick Miller (TV and media focus created by marching), Cheryl Buchanon, Susan Ryan (ALP senator), Gary Foley.
March up Turbot Street (beginning)
John Tracy and child
March coming around

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Unrestricted access.

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Copyright applies. At the discretion of the Fryer Library.

Language of material

  • English

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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Contains: Super8 film, DVD.

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Note

This collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions, some of which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts.

Note

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this film may contain images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.

Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991003625199703131

Millennium Local System Number

b31423085

Libraries Australia ID

50140357

OCLC Number

816349146 ; 1058700075

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Status

Revised

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Revised, SJB, 18-Nov-2022.
Revised, Linda Justo, 2-Jul-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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