- FVF269-O1.1
- Item
- 1971
Black type on double-sided white paper. Provides information about the history, purpose and aims of OPAL, particularly across the spheres of housing, education, employment and welfare and social relations.
OPAL (Organisation)
Black type on double-sided white paper. Provides information about the history, purpose and aims of OPAL, particularly across the spheres of housing, education, employment and welfare and social relations.
OPAL (Organisation)
An introduction to 'One People of Australia League'.
Black type on white paper. Information booklet. The second page notes it is intended to be the pilot issue of a recommenced quarterly magazine made to raise awareness in the Brisbane community of the work carried out by OPAL. The booklet covers the history, aims and objectives, and key people of OPAL. Includes articles on OPAL's first president Jim Hamilton; Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the OPAL Centre (Geerbaugh) on Anne Street was named; the Miss OPAL Quest pageant; and Yelangi Pre-School. Booklet contains an insert of a blank OPAL membership application form; the form indicates it cost $1 to join OPAL and an applicant had to be nominated by two current OPAL members.
OPAL (Organisation)
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
Correspondence, reports, ephemera, and articles have been collected around the areas of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters: culture and cultural events; education; politics; rights; welfare; and SEMP (Social Education Materials Project).
Ephemeral material, partial articles and reports, photocopied material, and newspaper cuttings held in the Culture and cultural folder include:
Bird's eye view of what we do, OPAL Brisbane Branch.
Half fold brochure, black type on yellow paper. Provides information on activities, projects and initiatives of OPAL, including the OPAL magazine, Miss OPAL Quest, bursaries and scholarships, holidays, career fairs, and art exhibitions.
OPAL (Organisation)
Draft manuscript that begins 'We had some rich months in East Devonport, Tasmania'
Part of Jackie Huggins Collection
Typescript draft, 16 leaves, undated. Gives an account of Muriel and Bernard Langford's arrival in Tasmania in 1955, their time in Tasmania, and life in Brisbane (they moved there in 1957) including her involvement with various groups until her involvement in OPAL.
Langford, Muriel E., 1913-2003
Draft of thesis Involvement in OPAL
Part of Jackie Huggins Collection
Partial biography of Rita Huggins: 'Involvement in OPAL’, BA Honours Thesis, Flinders university, 1989 (1 page of unknown manuscript inserted between pages 34 and 35)
Huggins, Jackie
Exhibition of traditional Aboriginal art.
Copy of a flyer, black handwriting on yellow paper, advertising an exhibition of traditional Aboriginal art to be held from Monday 5 July to Friday 9 July at the Queensland Room, McDonnell & East Ltd Building, arranged by OPAL. Exhibition will feature Arnhem Land bark paintings, carvings, weapons, artefacts and feathered headdresses.
OPAL (Organisation)
Geerbaugh Aboriginal Cultural Centre brochure.
Copy of a trifold brochure, brown type on yellow paper, undated, promoting the Geerbaugh Aboriginal Cultural Centre, also known as the OPAL Cultural Centre. Address for the Centre is listed as 466 Ann Street, Brisbane. Features a biography and a black and white photograph of Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the Centre was named. Contains a list of items for sale (didgeridoos, boomerangs, spears, bark paintings, shields, paintings, and other artefacts) as well as sketch illustrations of these objects. Includes black and white photographs from inside the Centre showing displays of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, and a hand-drawn map of where the Centre is located in the Brisbane central business district.
OPAL (Organisation)
Manuscripts, correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, and photocopies from published items relating to Queensland Indigenous politics, campaigns and organisations. There is material about the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School in Brisbane; One People of Australia League; and accounts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders events and activities around the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Musgrave Park in the 1980s.
Huggins, Jackie
Correspondence, scrapbook, publications relating to Neville Bonner's Presidency of the One People of Australia League (OPAL) and his time as Senator for Queensland.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions.
Bonner, Neville T. (Neville Thomas), 1922-