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Bruce Rigsby Papers

  • UQFL302
  • Collection
  • 1967-1989.

Papers relating to the Relics Advisory Committee within the Queensland Ministry for Aboriginal and Island Affairs and later within the Archaeology Branch of the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. The papers contain correspondence, reports, newspaper cuttings and journal articles relevant to the Committee's decisions under the Aboriginal Relics Preservation Act 1967-1976. In addition the collection includes: notebooks, recordings, videos and photographs related to his linguistic and ethnographic works in Queensland; and papers relating to research, teaching, administrations and applied work (especially native title)..

Rigsby, Bruce

Communication to heads of overseas governments.

A copy of a typescript submission to international heads of governments of countries in Asia, North America, Oceania, Africa and Europe detailing the Australian Government's treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It alleges a conspiracy between the Queensland and Federal governments to avoid taking action in the advancement of Aboriginal affairs and neglect the rights, particularly Land Rights, of Indigenous Peoples. Unsigned but addressed from Robert Weatherall, Mick Miller, Eric Kyle and Lyle Johnson on behalf of FAIRA.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

Community meeting.

Copy of the minutes of a FAIRA community meeting held on the evening of 22 January 1985 at 369 George Street, Brisbane. The meeting covered the proposed National Land Rights legislation, the need for buses for communities lacking effective transportation options, staffing at the Black Community Housing Service (BCHS), the need for an independent political party and the proposed establishment of the Brisbane Independent Aboriginal and Islander Community School. A status report for the proposal, written by Ross Watson, is attached as an appendix to the minutes. Also includes a copy of a handwritten attendance list for the meeting.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

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

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