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Aboriginal seminar on prisons

Typescript draft, 6 leaves, with title 'Aboriginal seminar on Prisons', dated 25 Jun 1988. First page typed on the reverse of a flyer address to Rev BL Langford (husband of Muriel Langford) .Includes: statistics from Queensland for incarceration rates and legislation that most affects Australian Aboriginals; and responses from question time (at the seminar) with names of some of the people asking or answering questions provided, including - Nat Foley, Muriel Langford, Henry Collins, Beryl Wharton, Shirleen Davidson, Gloria Purcell. Possibly typed by Muriel Langford.

Langford, Muriel E., 1913-2003

From an Aboriginal conference

Typescript draft, 4 leaves, with markups and some handwritten emendations. The heading for the speech '6.1.87 AICC Conference at Nudgee College, Brisbane' has been crossed out. AICC possibly stands for Aboriginal and islander Christian Congress given Reverend Charles Harris was part of the Uniting Church's Aboriginal and Torres Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) which began in 1985. Also cross out is: 'Speaker - Rev. Charles Harris'; written in its place is 'From an Aboriginal Conference'.

Harris, Charles, 1931-1993

Draft of thesis Involvement in OPAL

Partial biography of Rita Huggins: 'Involvement in OPAL’, BA Honours Thesis, Flinders university, 1989 (1 page of unknown manuscript inserted between pages 34 and 35)

Huggins, Jackie

Photocopy of typescript accounts from a variety of authors

Reneoed copy of a typed collection fourteen stories from different writers which may have been shared the third A.I.C.C. Conference. Not all stories have a title or name of the writer:
'The leap story' as told by Carmel McDonald;
'My life story' by Rose Mooney;
Story beginning 'Mothers Island name was Natofalinga,...'by Mrs K. Matthews;
'Early history of Palm Island' by Peter Pryor;
'Mitchells exploitation south west' by Hazel McKellar;
Story beginning 'Sai Nga Pe...' by Del sabasio;
'Mawuyul in the role of her life' contributed by Mrs K Matthews;
'A Bushman's requiem' [Poem], 'In memory of "Duke" the unprotected species' [Poem] 'contributed by a Sincere Friend'; and
'Is that ward clean' by Coral Edwards.

Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (3rd : 1981 : [Mackay?])

Photocopy of handwritten biography of Beryl Wharton

Photocopy of a handwritten account of Beryl Wharton, giving details of her life at Cherbourg mission, working life and the various places she lived. Undated. Author of account is a grandchild; name not supplied. There is a timeline of events in the life of Beryl are from 1924 to 1986; most likely this account was written in the late 1980s.

Huggins, Jackie

Careless One

Carbon copy typescript draft, 2 leaves, of the 'legend' "The Careless One" retold by Stan Connolly. This is a story about Gna-wa-yew the Turtle, Wong-ga-loo the Cockato and Doorr-Kim the White-tail Water-rat as they sail to Green Island.

Connolly, Stan

Story by Vanessa Fisher

Typescript, 2 leaves, on continuous computer paper. Begins 'A Story told by Vanessa Fisher - told to her by her grandfather - a story-teller of the Wakka-Wakka tribe'. It is the story of how the echidna got its quills, how the flat-headed goanna got its flat head, how old man wallaby got his white spot on his chest and why we should always listen tot the willy-wagtail.

Fisher, Vanessa

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