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March for Justice, Freedom and Hope Ephemera

  • FVF767
  • File
  • 1986-1987

Material produced by the United Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) March 88 Committee for the march in Sydney to protest the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988.

March 88 Committee

The March Update issue no. 2.

Typescript newsletter, second issue, with updates on activities undertaken by the March Organising Committee in preparation for the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. States that Stan McKay was submitted to the Committee as a proposed speaker and that Reverend Jesse Jackson had been in touch with the Committee to express a desire to attend the march as part of his trip to New Caledonia. Also mentions the march has received support from the Māori people and an application for 'Bicentennial funds' was not successful. First page features the UAICC logo in black and white, top right, and black footprints dotted along the left margin of the text. Second page references a meeting of Aboriginal people of the Catholic faith held in Alice Springs during the Pope's visit, and that Charles Harris attended as a representative of the UAICC. Newsletter ends with advice that the next meeting of the Committee is due to be held on Friday 19 December 1986 at the UAICC office on Clarence Street, Sydney, to be chaired by Maisie Cavanagh from Granville.

March 88 Committee

March for Justice, Freedom and Hope Planning Committee letter.

Typescript letter dated 1 September 1987 and addressed, "Dear friends". The letter explains the purpose and objectives of the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. It describes the plan for supporters from all over Australia to gather in Sydney by 22 January 1988 to participate in a number of events, including a prayer vigil, in the lead up to the march from Railway Square to Hyde Park on 26 January 1988. The letter also mentions a coordinator has been appointed for the march but does not name the coordinator; this could be a reference to Reverend Charles Harris.

March 88 Committee

The March leaflet.

Double-sided typescript leaflet with information on the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. Gives answers to questions about who can participate in the march, when it starts, who is organising it and what it hopes to achieve. States that the campaign launched nationally on 4 July 1987. It also mentions a plan to march on Canberra in May 1988, in time for the opening of the new Parliament House, and that invitations to the march from the organising committee were issued to several overseas guests including Jesse Jackson, Winnie Mandela, Allan Boesak and Stan Mackay. Features a colour illustration of the Australian Aboriginal flag on the recto, with black footprints leading down the left margin of the text, and the UAICC logo in colour on the verso.

March 88 Committee

Jim Gasteen Papers

  • UQFL510
  • Collection
  • 1946-2010

Notebooks, photographs, slides, correspondence, reports and other material relating to land use and conservation, and the establishment of National Parks in Queensland.
It includes images of people (Album 4), stone axes (Album 1 and 4), middens (Album 4), Kata Tjuta and Uluru (Albums 1, 3 and 4), Jane Table Hill (Rirrmerr) (Albums 1 and 4) and burial sites (Albums 1, 3 and 4).

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. This resource contains images of culturally sensitive sites.

Gasteen, Jim, 1922-

Petitions

Original pages of a 1988 petition opposing foreign ownership of Australian land. The pages record the names, addresses and signatures of hundreds of petitioners.

Correspondence

Correspondence relating to The Pauline Hanson Support Movement, mostly letters to and from Bruce Whiteside written during his time as chairman of the organisation. Some of the letters date from after Whiteside was expelled from the organisation, and were written in a personal capacity.

Newsletters

Internal newsletters and circulars of The Pauline Hanson Support Movement

Diary

Notebook used by Bruce Whiteside as a diary, with intermittent handwritten entries from 9 July 1988 to 5 July 1990

Outgoing letters 1989

Letters and opinion articles sent by Bruce Whiteside in 1989 as chairman of the organisation Heart of a Nation

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