Programme for National Aboriginal & Islanders Week, 1979, presented by NAIDOC. Events begin on Saturday 7th July and finish on Saturday 14th July. Some handwritten additions in blue ink.

Leaflet, black type on pink paper, providing information on John Howard's 'Ten Point Plan' to make changes to the Native Title Act 1993 and listing seven reasons to support native title. Includes details of ANTaR contacts in each state and an invitation to attend the 'Together for Co-existence' festivals on 21 September 1997.

Leaflet, black type on blue paper, listing details and consequences of the 1996 High Court Wik decision and the draft legislation incorporating the 'Ten Point Plan'.

Flyer, black type on blue paper, with an appeal to Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers to support native title and reconciliation. It positions ANTaR as a kind of union and calls for supporters to sign the Citizens Statement. The verso contains information about ANTaR rallies and festivals to be held from Sunday 21 September to Sunday 28 September 1997 at locations in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, ACT, Western Australia and Tasmania.

Addresses 'What the white man needs to know about Aboriginals' and 'What Aboriginals need to know about themselves'.
Discusses Aboriginal spirituality, and the need for research into Aboriginal history and culture. Steele makes several references to Janie Sunflower.

A personal history of an Aboriginal Australian tribe referred to as 'the Blucher tribe' located in the Darling Downs region. Includes an overview of their culture and customs. Two copies are typescripts bound by the Library. One is an original typescript with stiff paper wrappers and some handwritten annotations. One is a roneoed copy. The first of the two bound typescripts has an inscription on the title page near the hinge that reads '1.11.1934 345 1st copy typed in University Office'. The second of the two typescripts has an inscription on the title page near the hinge that reads '345 1.11.1934 duplic[ate] for FWR [Frederick Walter Robinson] 2/6'. The third original typescript copy in stiff paper wrappers, 41 leaves, has a bookplate pasted inside the front wrapper that states it 'belonged to Frederick Walter Robinson'. The fourth copy, 29 pages, looks to be a roneoed typescript that came from the Hayes collection.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains details about cultural and ceremonial rites, including Men’s Business and identifying details about the location and features of Killarney bora grounds. This resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Publicists - Budger Davidson, Jenny McLean, Denis Walker.

Publicists - Budger Davidson, Jenny McLean, Denis Walker.

Photocopy of draft of the paper The Aboriginal and his medicine chest written by FS Colliver, 20 pages, which includes two pages of bibliographic references that are referred to within the article. The article was published in 1972 in the Anthropological Society of Queensland Newsletter, no. 44, and Archaeology papers (3) 1-18. It includes quotes various authors on medicine mans powers & functions (Gippsland, Coast Murring), training (Murring, lower Lachlan River, Murray River, New England), remedies for sickness, Walbiri doctors & attitudes to them, circumcision as operation, post operative; treatment (Daly River), treatment of wounds, fractures (Gulf country, Port Keats), diseases listed with remedies given (taken mainly from Roth), use of pituri as stimulant, list of plants with scientific & popular names.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains ceremonial and initation information, in particular Men's Business. This resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Publicists - Budger Davidson, Jenny McLean, Denis Walker.