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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

The fax on native title.

Flyer, black type on white paper, with information on the Native Title Amendment Bill (Ten Point Plan) and a call to fax through opposition to the Bill to government leaders and the Joint Committee on Native Title. Lists the names, positions and fax numbers of Members of Parliament, including the Prime Minister, and committee members.

Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation

Talks for the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders : Catholic Council Field Trip

Photocopied typescript of a series of introductory talks on archaeology in Queensland; includes information on types of site, artefacts and the use of ethnography; broken into eight talks (of which talks number 4 and 8 are missing):

Talk 1: Archaeology Branch. 3 leaves.
Talk 2: Relics in South-East Queensland. 5 leaves.
Talk 3: Ethnography of the south-east coast of Queensland : with special reference to Brisbane and district. 7 leaves.
Talk 5: The importance of artefacts. 3 leaves.
Talk 6: Bora Grounds. 4 leaves.
Talk 7: Middens. 5 leaves.

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. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that 'Talk 6: Bora Grounds' contains sensitive Mens Business and details of initiation ceremony.

Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, Archaeological Branch

Survey of Facing Island / P. Ringland.

  • F2292
  • Item
  • 1979

Report of an independent undergraduate study for the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland. Concerns survey of Aboriginal relic sites on Facing Island.

Ringland, P.

Submissions to the Queensland State Government for equality of wages and working conditions for Aborigines in the pastoral industry

  • F1938
  • Item
  • 1964

Letter and duplicated typescript of submission made by the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland to the Government of Queensland seeking an end to wage discrimination against Aboriginal Australians in the pastoral industry. Both are dated 6 July 1964 and signed by A. Macdonald, General Secretary.

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 people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Submissions re Aboriginal legislation

  • F1939
  • Item
  • 1963

Includes : 'A.C.T.U Congress, September 1963, Melbourne, Decision : Aborigines' (2 pp. typescript)

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Submission presented to the Select Committee appointed to examine the Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Acts 1939 to 1946

  • F3833
  • Item
  • 1963

Photocopy of typescript (31 leaves) of the Submission presented by the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders to the Select Committee appointed to examine the Queensland Governments' Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Acts 1939 to 1946. Last page [32] is the Executive Recommendation on Aboriginal People from the ACTU Congress in 1963. Accompanying these is a letter on Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders letterhead, signed by Kath Walker as Secretary, with a note: The material in the attached "Submission" is NOT for publication without the written permission of the above Council.
The submission includes: purposes of the Acts; definition of 'Aboriginal'; Director, protectors and superintendents; Aboriginal councils; land; reserves; family; alcohol; property; health; education; language in education; wages and employment; and wills and estates.

Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

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