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Only top-level descriptions Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Queensland
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Brisbane Three Ephemera

  • FVF61
  • File
  • 1975

Ephemera relating to the Brisbane Three campaign. The Brisbane Three were Denis Walker, Lionel Fogarty (Lacey) and John Garcia.

Brisbane Three

Submission presented to the Select Committee appointed to examine the Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Acts 1939 to 1946

  • F3833
  • Item
  • 1963

Photocopy of typescript (31 leaves) of the Submission presented by the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders to the Select Committee appointed to examine the Queensland Governments' Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Acts 1939 to 1946. Last page [32] is the Executive Recommendation on Aboriginal People from the ACTU Congress in 1963. Accompanying these is a letter on Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders letterhead, signed by Kath Walker as Secretary, with a note: The material in the attached "Submission" is NOT for publication without the written permission of the above Council.
The submission includes: purposes of the Acts; definition of 'Aboriginal'; Director, protectors and superintendents; Aboriginal councils; land; reserves; family; alcohol; property; health; education; language in education; wages and employment; and wills and estates.

Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders