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Commonwealth Games (12th : 1982 : Brisbane, Qld.)
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[Records concerning sport and politics], 1980 Jun 13 - 1981 Jul 7

  • F2156
  • Item
  • 1980-1981.

Includes leaflets, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, telegrams, and a newsletter concerning Fair Play, an organization opposed to holding the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane due to Queensland laws affecting civil liberties.

Fair Play Committee

Brisbane Commonwealth Games land rights protests

  • F3686
  • Item
  • 1981-1982.

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

LeftPress Printing

Aborigines and the Commonwealth games.

Pamphlet published by the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc. (ALRM) in Adelaide with the support of FAIRA, among other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights organisations. Provides information on why Aboriginal peoples are protesting the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games and what Australians or visitors to Australia can do to support Aboriginal peoples.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action