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Council for Aboriginal Development Ephemera

  • FVF765
  • File
  • 1978

Letter, survey, and discussion paper circulated by the Council for Aboriginal Development, a Canberra based organisation, possibly in 1979 on compulsory voting for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Council for Aboriginal Development

Link-Up (Qld) sticker.

Bumper sticker that reads 'Link-Up' in block letters along with the Link-Up logo from the time, an outline of Queensland, yellow, against two concentric circles, one red and one black.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

The March Update issue no. 2.

Typescript newsletter, second issue, with updates on activities undertaken by the March Organising Committee in preparation for the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. States that Stan McKay was submitted to the Committee as a proposed speaker and that Reverend Jesse Jackson had been in touch with the Committee to express a desire to attend the march as part of his trip to New Caledonia. Also mentions the march has received support from the Māori people and an application for 'Bicentennial funds' was not successful. First page features the UAICC logo in black and white, top right, and black footprints dotted along the left margin of the text. Second page references a meeting of Aboriginal people of the Catholic faith held in Alice Springs during the Pope's visit, and that Charles Harris attended as a representative of the UAICC. Newsletter ends with advice that the next meeting of the Committee is due to be held on Friday 19 December 1986 at the UAICC office on Clarence Street, Sydney, to be chaired by Maisie Cavanagh from Granville.

March 88 Committee

Photocopied drafts and notes for 'The life of Thomas Lowah' (Eded mer (My life))

  • F2236
  • File
  • [1983?]

Two copies of the photocopied typescripts and handwritten pages that are drafts and / or notes that relate to the autobiography of Thomas Lowah titled Eded mer (My life), published by Rams Skull Press in 1988.

The first section of typescript leaves is titled 'The life of Thomas Lowah' and has has 76 leaves. The next section, a typescript photocopy is thirty six leaves in length with a handwritten note 'second time' on the first page. The third section is a copy of the preamble of the 'Constitution and Rules of the Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines Ex-Servicemens Corporation', two leaves. The next section is a photocopy of thirteen handwritten leaves. The last section is a photocopy of five typescript pages with the first page having the heading 'Trip to Brisbane and South East Qld on TSLI Committee's Matters', with agenda and notes from meetings in February 1983.

Lowah, Thomas, 1914-

Visit to Queensland of H.R.H. Duke of Gloucester, December 1934

  • F3474
  • Item
  • 1934

Album of 120 black and white photographs aranged chronologically.
Photographs show the Duke of Gloucester conducting official duties during his visit to Queensland in 1934. Places featured include: Wallangarra, Stanthorpe, Warwick, Clifton, Toowoomba, Gatton (including Agricultural College), Laidley, Rosewood, Ipswich, central Brisbane, Cleveland, Wynnum, R.N.A. Exhibition Grounds, University of Queensland, Bowen Park (Brisbane), Rosemount Repatriation Hospital, Archerfield Aerodrome, Dalgety's Wharf, and H.M.A.S. Australia on the Brisbane River. Photographs of Archerfield Aerodrome show the Duke dispatching the first airmail of the Australia-Great Britain Service.
Photographs are (10 x 14.5 cm and larger) mounted on boards with handwritten captions. Album bound in red leather. Cover title.

Black studies

Leaflet promoting Black Studies Courses run by Abschol and Brisbane Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council in 1971. Includes the programme laid out by the Black Studies Committee, comprised of five weekly courses from 28 September to 26 October 1971.

Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council (Brisbane, Qld.)

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