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Typescript draft of screenplay for Rabbit-proof fence

  • H2703
  • Item
  • 2000

Typescript, photocopy, of forth draft of screenplay of Rabbit-proof fence by Christine Olsen, based on the book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, dated 11 Aug 2000. Published by Jabal Films of Glenside, South Australia.

The film Rabbit-proof fence is based on a true account of Doris Pilkington Garimara's mother Molly.

Olsen, Christine, 1947-

The Mika or Kulpi operation of the Australian Aboriginals

  • F3658
  • Item
  • 1896

"Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, June 3, 1896." Note on cover: 'Information on the same subject from two other sources'.
Last page entitled 'Mika or Kulpi' includes extracts from 'Psychology of Sex' by Havelock Ellis (1917) and 'Strange Sexual Customs' by Professor Paulo Montegazza (1932).

Stuart, Thomas Peter Anderson, Sir., 1856-1920

The coming of the white men to Boonjie

  • F3879
  • Item
  • 1940-1949

Personal recount of the first recorded contacts between white European explorers, including Willem Janszoon and Captain James Cook, with Aboriginal Australians in an area referred to as Boonjie, possibly located on the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland. Original typescript.

Meredith, Percival Fortescue

Survey of Facing Island / P. Ringland.

  • F2292
  • Item
  • 1979

Report of an independent undergraduate study for the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland. Concerns survey of Aboriginal relic sites on Facing Island.

Ringland, P.

Submissions to the Queensland State Government for equality of wages and working conditions for Aborigines in the pastoral industry

  • F1938
  • Item
  • 1964

Letter and duplicated typescript of submission made by the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland to the Government of Queensland seeking an end to wage discrimination against Aboriginal Australians in the pastoral industry. Both are dated 6 July 1964 and signed by A. Macdonald, General Secretary.

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.

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Submissions re Aboriginal legislation

  • F1939
  • Item
  • 1963

Includes : 'A.C.T.U Congress, September 1963, Melbourne, Decision : Aborigines' (2 pp. typescript)

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Submission presented to the Select Committee appointed to examine the Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Acts 1939 to 1946

  • F3833
  • Item
  • 1963

Photocopy of typescript (31 leaves) of the Submission presented by the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders to the Select Committee appointed to examine the Queensland Governments' Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Acts 1939 to 1946. Last page [32] is the Executive Recommendation on Aboriginal People from the ACTU Congress in 1963. Accompanying these is a letter on Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders letterhead, signed by Kath Walker as Secretary, with a note: The material in the attached "Submission" is NOT for publication without the written permission of the above Council.
The submission includes: purposes of the Acts; definition of 'Aboriginal'; Director, protectors and superintendents; Aboriginal councils; land; reserves; family; alcohol; property; health; education; language in education; wages and employment; and wills and estates.

Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

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