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One People of Australia League Ephemera

  • FVF269
  • File
  • 1970-1989

Leaflets, booklets, event notices and a statement produced by members of the One People of Australia League (OPAL).

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)

Blackisms.

Copy of a double-sided leaflet with black type on white paper. The front has an illustration of five Aboriginal Australian boys with their arms around each other. Above and below the illustration are the words 'Blackisms: black is never having any friends except your cousins'. The rest of the page is filled with statements in small print about what it means to be black ('Black is a way of life', 'black is knowing this land is our land', and so on). On the back is a list of items for sale, such as FAIRA badges and t-shirts, Aboriginal flag pins and bags, and various publications pertaining to Aboriginal affairs.

Flyer for UQ Press launch of Son of Alyandabu by Joe McGinness

Flyer, black type on yellow paper, announcing an event for the launch of publication Son of Alyandabu: my fight for Aboriginal rights by Joe McGinness, organised by FAIRA in conjunction with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and University of Queensland Press. Event held at the Yurri Gurri SkillShare Centre in South Brisbane on Thursday 7 March 1991. Event information on the verso and a black and white photograph of Joe McGinness on the recto, above some biographical information.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action Ephemera

  • FVF186
  • File
  • 1977-1991

Letters, brochures, leaflets, meeting minutes, event materials and other documents produced by the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) and its members.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

Link-Up (Qld) sticker.

Bumper sticker that reads 'Link-Up' in block letters along with the Link-Up logo from the time, an outline of Queensland, yellow, against two concentric circles, one red and one black.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Link-Up (Qld) information brochure.

Trifold print brochure with information on the services and aims of Link-Up (Qld). Features eleven photographs, black and white, of various unidentified children and adolescents, as well as a black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous Australian children with two Indigenous Australian women credited to the John Oxley Library. Also features an artwork by Ted Watson that shows concentric bands of brown and red lined with dots and intersected by yellow flowing lines containing blue and purple human figures, accompanied by the artist's description of the meaning of the art.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

At last the dream comes true...

Double parallel fold brochure, titled 'At last the dream comes true...', promoting the Dreamtime Cultural Centre, 'Australia's largest Aboriginal cultural centre'. Contains information on the Darumbal Tribe, the original custodians of the land on which the Cultural Centre is located, as well as the purpose, aims, opening hours and guided tour times of the Centre. Includes photographs of spaces inside the Centre and some of the artworks on display. The verso features a colour illustration of waterlilies and a colour photograph of a young unidentified man wearing a red lap lap and white body paint holding a boomerang. Brochure is undated.

Dreamtime Cultural Centre

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation Ephemera

  • FVF766
  • File

Brochure and bumper sticker produced by Link-Up (Qld), the Brisbane-based organisation dedicated to reconnecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with family and information that may relate to their family history.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

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