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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters

Correspondence, reports, ephemera, and articles have been collected around the areas of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters: culture and cultural events; education; politics; rights; welfare; and SEMP (Social Education Materials Project).

Ephemeral material, partial articles and reports, photocopied material, and newspaper cuttings held in the Culture and cultural folder include:

  • Photocopied typescript of the lecture given by HC Coombs, Aboriginal Australians 1967-1976 : a decade of progress?, at the third Walter Murdoch Lecture delivered at Murdoch University on 19 October 1976, 27 leaves; with a with compliments slip from HC Coombs attached.
  • Photocopied typescript 'Summarized statement of Tuntable Organization and rule', 1978, 2 pages.
  • Report on the Wandjina Appeal, photocopied typescript, 2 leaves, undated.
  • Advertisement for a Course for Aboriginal and Islander Organisations by the North Stradbroke Island Aboriginal and Islander Housing Co-operatiave Society, 1980, 1 typescript leaf.
  • Stradbroke Island Mangement Organisation flyer, 1980.
  • Notice for a meeting of the Aranarawai Company, 1978, 1 photocopied typescript leaf.
  • Facismile copy, incomplete, of Good contacts, with the stamp of the Queensland Aboriginal Affairs Head Office on front cover, 1979.
  • Agenda for the Annual Sporting Organisations Meeting, typescript, 1979, 1 leaf.
  • Report on the Long Island Project, photocopied, 3 leaves, undated.
  • Victorian Aboriginal Health and Dental Clinic flyer, 2 pages, 1978?
  • Flyer for Aboriginal Studies : Aborigines Woomera, approved by the Depart of Education and the Catholic Office of Education, 1 leaf, 1977.
  • Blank petition form to support the New South Wales Aboriginal Sites Survey, 1 leaf, 1977.
  • Flyer by the Dampier and District Recreation Association invitation to the 1971 Commonwealth Literary Fund Tour conducted by Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Ian Mudie, 1 leaf, 1971.
  • Invitation to the Yeti Theatre and Aboriginal and Islanders Tribal Dancing, flyer, 1 leaf, 1976?
  • Brochure: 'How to apply for a grant from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs', undated.
  • Blank housing loan application for the Aboriginal Loans Commission, undated.
  • Flyer by Ian Hamilton for the 'The Brisbane Line : a ritual trance-walk', 2 pages, 22 Dec 1980.
  • Brochure: Trachoma from the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, 2 pages, undated.
  • Brochure: The deed of grant in trust : land tenure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland from the Queensland Government, 2 pages, undated.
  • Photocopy of at three papers by KS Strehlow: 'Aboriginal land rights' (undated), 'Strehlow aboriginal research foundation' (dated 1977), and 'Strehlow and Central Australia' (undated).

Newspaper cuttings, 1961 to 1972

This file consists of three items:

  1. A Collins Australian Diary for 1959 with 11 pages of newspaper cuttings regarding Kath Walker's activities in promoting Aboriginal rights (rest of diary is empty) from 1961 - 1972.
  2. A photograph album (half full) of newspaper cuttings regarding Kath Walker's activities in promoting Aboriginal rights, with one article about her son Vivian Walker (1971). Articles are either dated 1966 or 1971
  3. One photograph album with six pages of newspaper cuttings regarding Oodgeroo's activities in promoting Aboriginal rights, 1961 - 1967

Jackie Huggins Collection

  • UQFL468
  • Collection
  • 1968-1999

Manuscripts, correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, and photocopies from published items relating to Queensland Indigenous politics, campaigns and organisations. There is material about the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School in Brisbane; One People of Australia League; and accounts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders events and activities around the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Musgrave Park in the 1980s.

Huggins, Jackie

Neville Bonner Papers

  • UQFL571
  • Collection
  • 1969-1979

Correspondence, scrapbook, publications relating to Neville Bonner's Presidency of the One People of Australia League (OPAL) and his time as Senator for Queensland.

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.

Bonner, Neville T. (Neville Thomas), 1922-

One People of Australia League Ephemera

  • FVF269
  • File
  • 1970-1989

Leaflets, booklets, event notices and a statement produced by members of the One People of Australia League (OPAL).

OPAL (Organisation)

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.

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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.

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What's the answer? Panel of speakers.

Notice of a public forum to be held at the OPAL Centre on Anne Street in Brisbane on the evening of Friday 27 October. The purpose of the forum is to suggest solutions to problems faced by Aboriginal Australians. The panelists include Denis Walker, J. Herlihy from the Legal Aid Committee, Sam Watson (Junior), Darcy Cummins and a representative from the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Canberra. Chaired by Reverend J.R. Sweet. For more information attendees are encouraged to contact Sam Watson (Senior), Liaison Officer for the Brisbane Branch of OPAL.

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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.

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