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[Report on Torres Strait Islanders]

  • F1071
  • Item
  • [196-?]

Typescript report on Torres Strait Islanders and their encounters with Europeans, and health.
Accompanied by Australia's role in the Torres Strait, refers to previous paper by Dr. Noble. (10 l.)

Noble, H. W.

Unions demand full rights for Aborigines

Authorised by the Trades & Labor Council of Queensland, this pamphlet discusses wage discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including: wages and employment deficiencies, exclusion from conditions of the Station Hands Award, disparities in wages based on colour, and laws barring joining unions.

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

Gaulai's notebook

  • F674
  • Item
  • [191-?]

Photocopy of a notebook kept by Gaulai of Mabuiag in the Torres Strait Islands ; mainly comprises sermons and hymns. These were probably used by Gaulai when he was a lay preacher at Yam Island, Central Torres Strait, in the early 1900s. Includes handwritten genealogical information about Gaulai and his descendants, and five photographs.
Includes notes by donor (2 leaves typescript) on provenance of notebook.

Gaulai

Wara Lagau Zapul

  • F682
  • Item
  • 1972

Booklet, printed by B. & A. Simpson and Young Bani, privately produced at Mabuiag, Torres Strait, 1972, for sale to schoolchildren and interested adults. Written in Mabuiag dialect.

Simpson, Buddy

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