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Teachers, school children and students, 1980 to 1985

This file contains letters to Kath Walker from school children, teachers and university students. Some letters by Kath Walker to school children and teachers are included. Many are letters from children thanking her for visiting their school and sharing her stories. Correspondents are teachers and students from various schools including: Bremer State High School, Woondall Heights State Primary School (Wynnum, Qld.), and Dunwich State School (Dunwich, Qld.).

Correspondence: Environmental and social issues

Letters (often only one letter) from representatives of various environmental, social interest and church groups including: Bribie Island Bicentennial Community Committee; Brisbane Migrant Resource Centre; Brisbane Wildlife Survey; Campaign Against Nuclear Power (Qld); Committee to Boycott the Games; Australian Heritage; Institute of Cultural Affairs; Moreton Island Protection Committee; National Conference for a Democratic Constitution; Tasmanian Wilderness Society.

Newspaper cuttings

This series has newspaper cuttings relating to Dunwich, Kath Walker, and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters

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:

  • Photocopied typescript of the lecture given by HC Coombs, Aboriginal Australians 1967-1976 : a decade of progress?, at the third Walter Murdoch Lecture delivered at Murdoch University on 19 October 1976, 27 leaves; with a with compliments slip from HC Coombs attached.
  • Photocopied typescript 'Summarized statement of Tuntable Organization and rule', 1978, 2 pages.
  • Report on the Wandjina Appeal, photocopied typescript, 2 leaves, undated.
  • Advertisement for a Course for Aboriginal and Islander Organisations by the North Stradbroke Island Aboriginal and Islander Housing Co-operatiave Society, 1980, 1 typescript leaf.
  • Stradbroke Island Mangement Organisation flyer, 1980.
  • Notice for a meeting of the Aranarawai Company, 1978, 1 photocopied typescript leaf.
  • Facismile copy, incomplete, of Good contacts, with the stamp of the Queensland Aboriginal Affairs Head Office on front cover, 1979.
  • Agenda for the Annual Sporting Organisations Meeting, typescript, 1979, 1 leaf.
  • Report on the Long Island Project, photocopied, 3 leaves, undated.
  • Victorian Aboriginal Health and Dental Clinic flyer, 2 pages, 1978?
  • Flyer for Aboriginal Studies : Aborigines Woomera, approved by the Depart of Education and the Catholic Office of Education, 1 leaf, 1977.
  • Blank petition form to support the New South Wales Aboriginal Sites Survey, 1 leaf, 1977.
  • Flyer by the Dampier and District Recreation Association invitation to the 1971 Commonwealth Literary Fund Tour conducted by Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Ian Mudie, 1 leaf, 1971.
  • Invitation to the Yeti Theatre and Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Dancing, flyer, 1 leaf, 1976?
  • Brochure: 'How to apply for a grant from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs', undated.
  • Blank housing loan application for the Aboriginal Loans Commission, undated.
  • Flyer by Ian Hamilton for the 'The Brisbane Line : a ritual trance-walk', 2 pages, 22 Dec 1980.
  • Brochure: Trachoma from the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, 2 pages, undated.
  • Brochure: The deed of grant in trust : land tenure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland from the Queensland Government, 2 pages, undated.
  • Photocopy of at three papers by KS Strehlow: 'Aboriginal land rights' (undated), 'Strehlow aboriginal research foundation' (dated 1977), and 'Strehlow and Central Australia' (undated).

Personal documents

Included in this series: autobiographical and biographical material, which includes the film Shadow sister; an address book; a diary; personal financial information; material by or relating to her sons, Denis and Vivian; notebook with rhyming words; notebooks with Aboriginal words; and unidentified material, most with Kath's' handwriting.

Invitations, Requests to speak, Appearances, 1981 to 1985

This file includes correspondence from community and educational organisations requesting Kath Walker to participate in events and readings from 1981 to 1985 as well as undated. Included are also invitations to events such as dinners, festivals, ceremonies, exhibitions, official functions, concerts, weddings and other social functions.

Correspondence: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and organisations

Letters from various Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and organisations are in these correspondence files as well as in the subject related files in other series. Correspondence from literary and women's organisations that are associated with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is included in this subseries.

Correspondence: General

This sub-series consists primarily of incoming correspondence and includes letters of thanks and appreciation for her literary work and activities, cards, and postcards. Correspondents are more often individuals. Some correspondents have included their own poetry. Often there will be written across the top of the letter 'answered' but very few copies of the outgoing correspondence are attached. Most correspondents names were clearly identified; some may not be accurate or unable to be identified.

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