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Abschol newspaper cuttings of aboriginal affairs

  • F2186
  • Item
  • 1963-1966.

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of aboriginal affairs, compiled for ABSCHOL from March 1963 to July 1966.
Scrapbook includes pamphlets and postcards.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 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.

Bakker, Henny (Fokker)

Aboriginal tribes in the Woocoo Shire

  • F2220
  • Item
  • [1972?]

Typescript (duplicated), which includes descriptive information about the Kabi tribe, an account of conflict between white settlers and local indigenous people in about 1849, and an account of indigenous customs at Mt. Mowbollan. Includes bibliography.

Woocoo Historical Society

Photograph album of Cairns Railway, Barron Falls and Kuranda

  • F3377
  • Item
  • [1909]

Photograph album of Cairns Railway, Barron Falls and Kuranda containing 48 photographs (21 x 16cm) mounted on board in a blue and grey album. The album shows the Cairns Railway Line and the surrounding countryside during its construction. Views include the Barron Gorge, Barron Falls, Kuranda Railway Station, Robb's Monument, and indigenous Australian families living in the area.

Hill, Colleen

Notebook of vocabulary of Aboriginal dialects [photocopy]

  • F1072
  • Item
  • 1855

Photocopy of handwritten notebook of vocabulary and phrases in Aboriginal languages, Queensland. Original notebook about 150 leaves, 16cm. Inside front cover of original : "W. Ridley, Minister of the Gospel, 21 February, 1855'.

Ridley, William, 1819-1878

History of the Foundation.

Copy of a typescript, written 12 months after the establishment of FAIRA, detailing the purpose of the organisation, as well as the Foundation's key people, sources of funding, areas of spending, and projects. Ends with an appeal to churches to help financially support the Foundation to keep it operating. First page has a black and white illustration of an elder conversing with a boy under a tree.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

Short-cut to justice.

Trifold brochure, black and red type on yellow paper, created to be a 'guide for all Queenslanders interested in the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' and issued for 'National Aborigines Week (6-12 July 1981)'. Provides information on legislative changes required to bring justice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; has a particular focus on land rights. Includes an illustrated map of Queensland and its reserves, from Cherbourg up to Bamaga, as well as an excerpt from the 1938 pamphlet Aborigines claim citizen rights!: a statement of the case for the Aborigines Progressive Association by J.T. Patten (John [Jack] Patten) and W. Ferguson (William [Bill] Patten).

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

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