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Aborigines and the Commonwealth games.

Pamphlet published by the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc. (ALRM) in Adelaide with the support of FAIRA, among other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights organisations. Provides information on why Aboriginal peoples are protesting the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games and what Australians or visitors to Australia can do to support Aboriginal peoples.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

Unions demand full rights for Aborigines

Authorised by the Trades & Labor Council of Queensland, this pamphlet discusses wage discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including: wages and employment deficiencies, exclusion from conditions of the Station Hands Award, disparities in wages based on colour, and laws barring joining unions.

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Aims and aspirations of OPAL.

Black type on double-sided white paper. Provides information about the history, purpose and aims of OPAL, particularly across the spheres of housing, education, employment and welfare and social relations.

OPAL (Organisation)

Exhibition of traditional Aboriginal art.

Copy of a flyer, black handwriting on yellow paper, advertising an exhibition of traditional Aboriginal art to be held from Monday 5 July to Friday 9 July at the Queensland Room, McDonnell & East Ltd Building, arranged by OPAL. Exhibition will feature Arnhem Land bark paintings, carvings, weapons, artefacts and feathered headdresses.

OPAL (Organisation)

Geerbaugh Aboriginal Cultural Centre brochure.

Copy of a trifold brochure, brown type on yellow paper, undated, promoting the Geerbaugh Aboriginal Cultural Centre, also known as the OPAL Cultural Centre. Address for the Centre is listed as 466 Ann Street, Brisbane. Features a biography and a black and white photograph of Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the Centre was named. Contains a list of items for sale (didgeridoos, boomerangs, spears, bark paintings, shields, paintings, and other artefacts) as well as sketch illustrations of these objects. Includes black and white photographs from inside the Centre showing displays of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, and a hand-drawn map of where the Centre is located in the Brisbane central business district.

OPAL (Organisation)

ANTaR (Qld) newsletter : March 1998.

Newsletter, brown type on white paper, produced by ANTaR QLD. Includes a recap of an ANTaR-hosted forum of discussions on native title issues between National Indigenous Working Group (NIWG) and representatives from Land Councils and local government and church groups; a recap of the Brisbane stolen generations apology ceremony, whereat Lord Mayor Jim Soorley handed the keys of the City of Brisbane to Elder Herb Bligh to symbolise that Indigenous people are welcome to the city; an article on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and its potential impact on native title justice in Australia; and an article on the Mirrar community's opposition to a new uranium mine on Jabiluka land. Address label on last page shows the newsletter was posted to Muriel Langford.

Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation

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