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Seminar folder : Seminar on Aboriginal Rights, Willard House - Saturday July 13th 1968

Seminar folder containing a summary, flyers, and precises of the main papers which were given to every person who attended the Seminar on Aboriginal Rights. The Seminar was conducted by the International Women's Day Committee in honour of Human Rights Year of July 13th, 1968, at Willard House, Brisbane. Contents: Summary (5 p.); Mr Manfred Cross. MHR. Member for Brisbane (2 p.); International Women's Day Committee [flyer] (1 leaf); Mrs. Kath Walker 'Aborigines need .....' (1 leaf); 'Land Rights for Aborigines...Centenary Place Forum, Sunday 14th July' [flyer] (1 leaf); 'Aboriginal Land Rights - Speakers notes' prepared by Q'ld. Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders from information supplied by the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders, and from our own files', 20 Jun 1968 (3 p.); 'Integration and the rights of the citizen' by Fred P. Bromley, M.L.A. Member for Norman (3 p.); 'Resolutions from the Trade Union Committee meeting at the National Conference, Canberra, April 12-15th, 1968' by the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (1 leaf); Circular letter and accompanying petition from L McBride, President and Campaign Director for South Queensland for Q'ld Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders (2 leaves); and, Paper on Aboriginal Education, July 13, 1968 (1 leaf).

Kath Walker talks to Paul Tripcony

  • F3874
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  • 1973

Sound recording from 1973 or 1974 by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and others, interviewing Paul Tripcony while he was on a visit to Minjerribah.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain voices, 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.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993

Boonjie : a romance of a lost tribe of Australian Aborigines, a North Queensland story

  • F3878
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  • 1940

Fictional story about Aboriginal Australians set in North Queensland. Two copies are carbon copy typescript and one is original typescript. Six black and white photographic prints pasted throughout the story. Four leaves of glossary at the end with fictionalised Australian language terms.

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 peoples now deceased, including an image of a mummified corpse (between pp. 66-67). It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Meredith, Percival Fortescue

The coming of the white men to Boonjie

  • F3879
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  • 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

The March leaflet.

Double-sided typescript leaflet with information on the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. Gives answers to questions about who can participate in the march, when it starts, who is organising it and what it hopes to achieve. States that the campaign launched nationally on 4 July 1987. It also mentions a plan to march on Canberra in May 1988, in time for the opening of the new Parliament House, and that invitations to the march from the organising committee were issued to several overseas guests including Jesse Jackson, Winnie Mandela, Allan Boesak and Stan Mackay. Features a colour illustration of the Australian Aboriginal flag on the recto, with black footprints leading down the left margin of the text, and the UAICC logo in colour on the verso.

March 88 Committee

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

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