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Short-cut to justice.

Trifold brochure, black and red type on yellow paper, created to be a 'guide for all Queenslanders interested in the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' and issued for 'National Aborigines Week (6-12 July 1981)'. Provides information on legislative changes required to bring justice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; has a particular focus on land rights. Includes an illustrated map of Queensland and its reserves, from Cherbourg up to Bamaga, as well as an excerpt from the 1938 pamphlet Aborigines claim citizen rights!: a statement of the case for the Aborigines Progressive Association by J.T. Patten (John [Jack] Patten) and W. Ferguson (William [Bill] Patten).

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

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

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

WISA : Women's Information and Support Association - Sunshine Coast.

A flyer with black type on white paper by the Women's Information and Support Association (abbreviated to WISA) Sunshine Coast advising of a monthly meeting to be held on the first Thursday of each month at the Meeting Place on Coronation Drive, Nambour. It states the meeting on Thursday 6 September in an unspecified year will discuss weekend self-defence workshops to be held later in the year in October or November.

Women's Information and Support Association Sunshine Coast

CAPOW : Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women.

White paper with black type. A leaflet providing information on the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women, abbreviated to CAPOW, including how and why the Coalition was formed. The leaflet also includes information about several events the Coalition is coordinating, including a weekend of forums to be held around Australia on 21 and 22 August in an unspecified year, at which women can discuss issues to be taken to the Beijing World Conference on Women, as well as a national conference to be held in Canberra on 26-28 November in an unspecified year.

Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women

Women's International Democratic Federation Council - May 1972.

8 pages, each a different colour (blue, white, yellow, cream), with black type. The first two pages are likely authored by Freda Brown, addressing members of the National Committee Union of Australian Women on June 17, 1972. The first two pages summarise the main decisions made at the Women's International Democratic Federation Council Meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1972. The following 6 pages are attachments referred to in the summary as documents adopted at the Council Meeting. Attachments include a call to action to women around the world to demand peace in Indo China; a summary of recommendations arising from a Council Meeting debate on the role of women's organisations in integrating young women into the economic, political, social and cultural spheres of their countries; and an appeal from Women's International Democratic Federation Council representatives from Vietnam, Laos, United States, Canada, Australia, the German Federal Republic, Japan and Great Britain to women's organisations and members to protest the war in Vietnam.

Women's International Democratic Federation Council

A women's health speak out.

Black type on white paper. A flyer, likely created by the Queensland Nurses' Union, for a women's health speak out to be held on Thursday 15 October, year unspecified, at the Queensland Nurses Union Building in West End, Brisbane. The flyer advises the speaker is Phillida Bunkle, then co-ordinator of Women's Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, visiting Australia on a speaking tour. Flyer contains information about Phillida's involvement in women's health issues, including the inquiry into cervical cancer treatment at the National Women's Hospital in New Zealand. The flyer also makes reference to the 'recently announced' National Cervical Cancer Program in Australia.

Queensland Nurses' Union

ANTaR (Qld) newsletter : October 1997.

Newsletter, brown type on white paper, produced by ANTaR QLD. Includes an article by Les Malezer about the Howard government's potential extinguishment of native title by way of proposed amendments to the Native Title Act 1993; a story by Marjorie Woodrow about her upbringing as a member of the stolen generations; an article on white race privilege; and an article by Professor Boni Robertson criticising the federal government's proposed changes to ABSTUDY.

Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation

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