Briefing material : Commonwealth Games Act, street march ban, award wages on reserves.
- F2034
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- 1982
Notes, cartoons, correspondence, newspaper clippings (typescript, photocopied)
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
Briefing material : Commonwealth Games Act, street march ban, award wages on reserves.
Notes, cartoons, correspondence, newspaper clippings (typescript, photocopied)
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
Aborigines and the Commonwealth games.
Part of Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action Ephemera
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
Brisbane Commonwealth Games land rights protests
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