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Manifesto no. 2

Released in conjunction with the Orientation Week (Feb.-March) on all Universities throughout Australia. Pages 1 and 2 are written by Denis Walker.

Pages 3 to 5 have been issued by the Moratorium for Black Rights and relates to eviction of Mr and Mrs Harold Brown from their home in Muli Muli Village, Aboriginal Reserve, Woodenbong on 21 February 1972. Unsure if these three pages are part of the Number 2 Manifesto (despite page numbering following on).

Platform and program : January 1972

Outlines the platform and program of the Black Panther Party Australia with 10 points. Includes calls for: freedom; full employment; decent housing; education; exemption of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from military service; an end to police oppression and introduction of community policing; revised procedures for trials; a United Nations supervised plebiscite so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can determine their own destiny.

Two copies: Copy number one has had four words crossed out in section 8.

Manifesto no. 1

Roneoed copy of the first manifesto, dated 28/1/72. Possibly written by Denis Walker. It begins by welcoming delegates to the 'Action Conference on Racism and Education' to be held at the Queensland University from 28 Jan to 2 Feb 1972. It outlines how the Black Panther Party, Brisbane Chapter, will work in a revolutionary way to achieve human rights for Aboriginal people and the alleviation of racism and racist government policy; attempts to change the present system from within organisations has not worked.

Percy Brier Papers

  • UQFL19
  • Collection
  • ca. 1906-1969

Personal papers, correspondence, photographs, notebooks . Manuscripts on history of music in Queensland; church history in Brisbane, with emphasis on church choirs and liturgical music; records of Queensland musical societies. Notes on the teaching of music in Australia. Musical scores and programs. Compositions for piano, choir, violin; including full score for an opera. Memoirs. Associations: Australian Music Examination Board; Musical Association of Queensland; Guild of Australian Composers; Brisbane Musical Union.

Brier, Percy, 1885-1970

The liberator : a novel in verse by Sense of Justice

  • F3881
  • Item
  • 1933

Verse novel set in a magistrates court, as well as a court referred to as 'higher court', located in Australia. Follows the activities of a barrister, Wiseman Right, a resident of Ravensbourne, Queensland, as he defends a prisoner (among other accused parties) and represents a divorce plaintiff. Bound carbon copy typescript with gilt blind stamp title on front. Some annotations throughout.

Hall, Thomas

Rosemary Opala Papers

  • UQFL361
  • Collection
  • 1910-2008.

Sketches, biographical material, artwork, photographs, and short stories related to Rosemary Opala's nursing career and her career as a writer of popular magazine fiction. There are 48 original artworks, some framed, primarily of plants and 830 x 35mm colour slides.

Opala, Rosemary, 1923-2008

Political badges / collected by Carole Ferrier.

  • F3424
  • Item
  • [197-?] - [198-?]

Badges relating to issues and groups such as the Aboriginal land rights, abortion, anti war movement, anti nuclear movement and University fees.

Ferrier, Carole, 1946-

Black studies

Leaflet promoting Black Studies Courses run by Abschol and Brisbane Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council in 1971. Includes the programme laid out by the Black Studies Committee, comprised of five weekly courses from 28 September to 26 October 1971.

Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Council (Brisbane, Qld.)

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