One People of Australia League was established in 1961 as an Aboriginal advancement organisation. It was based in Queensland. The OPAL centre was opened in Brisbane in 1971. It focused on welfare and housing. Neville Bonner was president from 1968 to 1974. Unable to determine when the organisation disbanded; there is no recent information online about it.
Publicists - Neville Bonner, Carol Archer, O. Fletcher, Jim Hamilton, Muriel Langford, Olive Murphy, E. Rallah, Joyce Wilding.
Neville Thomas Bonner AO (28 March 1922 - 5 February 1999), elder of the Jagera people, was the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia. He served as President of the One People of Australia League in 1970.
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