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Recording of Michael Edols [audio cassette]

Recording of film maker Michael Edols talking about making a film about Kath Walker and her work. Edols discusses the making of his previous documentaries 'Lalai Dreamtime' and 'Floating this Time'.

Feasibility of the "Boornong" Project

The feasibility of the "Boornong" project : being a report prepared for the Office of Aboriginal Affairs and the Arts Council of Australia by D.W. McElwain ... [et al.]. Brisbane : University of Queensland, 1971. Some marking up.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of ceremony. It may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

North Stradbroke Island research material

This file includes correspondence, The Stradbroke Island Management Organisation Constitution (which included a membership form at the end and had the poem Ballad of the Bridge by Kath Walker attached); newsletter; flyer Is a bridge to Stradbroke necessary (with S.I.M.O. membership form); and reports.

Papers relating to overseas trip to New Zealand

Kath Walker toured New Zealand between September 1 and October 16, 1972, under the auspices of the Citizens' Association for Racial Equality. This file consists of two folders of papers and 4 items. One folder includes: timetable for her visit, a Certificate of Appreciation from Lions Club of Dunedin South, a 1972 flyer for Kath Walker's New Zealand tour, and correspondence between Kath Walker and J C Nacola and Noel Parsloe (4 letters). The other folder has newspapers with articles covering her tour. The items are: a desk diary for 1972 with the names and addresses of people from New Zealand; and three booklets with inscriptions.

Includes titles:
Item 2 - Nema Namba - Poems by Henginike Riyong, Papua Pocket Poets, Port Moresby, 1974.
Item 3 - The Taiaha and The Testament by Leo Fowler - A Verse Play based on the life of Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki.
Item 4 - Waitara, 1859-1936 Souvenir of Pomare Memorial Meeting, Manukorihi PA, Waitara, June 27th 1936.

Aborigines Gang Work Book

Transcribed handwritten copy of entries into the 'Aborigines Gang Work Book from Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, Benevelont [sic] Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, 1934'. Date of transcribing unknow; and transcriber unknown, but possibly Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Diary entries are from 18 Jun 1934 to 30 Jun 1934; E. Ruska is listed as the foreman; entries include information about the time the gang signed on and off and work conducted at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum. Written in a Dux exercise note book

Correspondence

Correspondence, comprising 9 letters and 1 telegram; mostly written to Kath Walker; 1976 to 1979 and undated.

Politicians, politics, government

In this file, often accompanied by correspondence, are leaflets, newsletters, minutes of meetings, and reports of activities, from the following politicians and government departments: Aboriginal Loans Commission; Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Australia. Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Australia. Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs; Australia. Department of Education; Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs; Australia. Department of the Interior; Australia. Department of Veteran's Affairs; Australian Labor party; Bonner, Neville T.; Commissioner for Community Relations (Albert Jaime Grassby); Coombs, H. C.; Everingham, Doug; Keeffe, Jim; Office of the Public Service Board; Papers sent by Senator Jim Keeffe; Papers sent by Senator Stewart West; Papers sent by Senator Susan Ryan; Parliamentary papers, Bills, and Acts; Queensland. Board of Adult Education; Queensland. Department of Children's Services; Whitlam, Edward Gough; All African Peoples Revolutionary Party. Australia-USSR Society.

Writings from other authors

Authors sent their writings to Kath Walker, some in admiration, some for professional reasons. They may have been accompanied by correspondence that is filed elsewhere. Included is a thesis, prose, and poems.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of mortuary and birthing customs of Aboriginal peoples around Millaa Millaa in The Story of Emily Purcell: an Aboriginal woman born about 1890. It also may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Kath Walker works of art

Kath Walker drawings: 9 drawings; 2 drawings on card (covered with contact?); Sketch Book (25 cm); Sketch Book (25 x 36 cm); and 1 drawing, sticky taped onto board (signed on back by Kath Walker); One A6 unlined notebook with pencil sketches. In a separate folder: Invitation to an exhibition of Artwork (and fabric design by) Kath Walker, 6 to 15 Jul 1981: 4 typescripts (all annotated) with the price list for the Kath Walker Exhibition, 6 to15 Jul 1981; Program from the Noosa Gallery Society for an Exhibition of Paintings by Kath Walker, 12 to 17 Sep 1981 which includes prices and poems No More Boomerang and Biami; photocopy of invitation list for Kath Walker Exhibition; handwritten list of invitees; Kath Walker Exhibition expenditure (2 copies, annotated).

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