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Aboriginal Land Rights Campaign, background material.

Introduction and, Fact Sheets 1-7. Its stated purpose to provide useful material for campaign workers, to cover a variety of speaking and writing situations and audiences. Topics covered include Aboriginal social conditions, international standards and precedents, support in Australia through colonial and commonwealth history, and rebuttals for possible objections from pastoralists and mining companies.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Should a Queensland Aborigine still beg for his own wages?, October 1970

In October 1970, the FCAATSI decided if the Commonwealth Banking Corporation did not dissociate itself from the Trust Fund system in Queensland they would transfer their business to another bank and called for others to do the same by filling in their details on the leaflet and / or making a donation. In Queensland an assisted Australian Aboriginal may have all or part of their wages be paid into a "trust fund" and was only available upon request to a district officer of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs.

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