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An introduction to 'One People of Australia League'.

Black type on white paper. Information booklet. The second page notes it is intended to be the pilot issue of a recommenced quarterly magazine made to raise awareness in the Brisbane community of the work carried out by OPAL. The booklet covers the history, aims and objectives, and key people of OPAL. Includes articles on OPAL's first president Jim Hamilton; Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the OPAL Centre (Geerbaugh) on Anne Street was named; the Miss OPAL Quest pageant; and Yelangi Pre-School. Booklet contains an insert of a blank OPAL membership application form; the form indicates it cost $1 to join OPAL and an applicant had to be nominated by two current OPAL members.

OPAL (Organisation)

Queensland Aborigines - official statistics of wages of Queensland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders seized by the Deptartment of Native Affairs 1937-1958 and still retained - 1962.

Prepared by a member of the Council for Aboriginal Rights (Victoria) on 16 August 1963, it reports that the Queensland Government is holding close on one million pounds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders wages. Signed by Pauline Pickford, secretary for the Council.

Council for Aboriginal Rights (Victoria)

Neville Bonner Papers

  • UQFL571
  • Collection
  • 1969-1979

Correspondence, scrapbook, publications relating to Neville Bonner's Presidency of the One People of Australia League (OPAL) and his time as Senator for Queensland.

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.

Bonner, Neville T. (Neville Thomas), 1922-1999

Link-Up (Qld) information brochure.

Trifold print brochure with information on the services and aims of Link-Up (Qld). Features eleven photographs, black and white, of various unidentified children and adolescents, as well as a black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous Australian children with two Indigenous Australian women credited to the John Oxley Library. Also features an artwork by Ted Watson that shows concentric bands of brown and red lined with dots and intersected by yellow flowing lines containing blue and purple human figures, accompanied by the artist's description of the meaning of the art.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Dreamtime Cultural Centre Ephemera

  • FVF767
  • File
  • 2000-2010

Brochure promoting the Dreamtime Cultural Centre, located just outside Rockhampton on Darumbal Country.

Dreamtime Cultural Centre

Views of Cairns-Herberton Railways, etc., Queensland

  • F3462
  • Item
  • 1886-1900

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886. It finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Written on the inside cover the album, presumably by the seller: "In. [Inventory] 5033. Royal Qto. Oblong Purple toned. 10 [shillings]". These type of photographs were often taken by the Queensland Government.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets:

  1. Glacier Rock . --
  2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. --
  3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. --
  4. Cairns end of long tunnel. --
  5. The Barron Gorge. --
  6. Herberton end of the tunnel. --
  7. Near the Barron. --
  8. Barron Falls. --
  9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. --
  10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. --
  11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. --
  12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this manuscript may contain images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.

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