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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.

OPAL (Organisation)

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.

OPAL (Organisation)

Statement in support of Aboriginal land rights.

Black type on white paper with author's original signature in blue pen. A statement written to affirm the OPAL Board's support for Aboriginal land rights, while addressing the issue of the loss of Aboriginal lands due to acts of encroachment by mining companies. Argues for Australia to establish a Claims Commission, modelled on that of the Indian Claims Commission in the USA, with the power to award compensation to Aboriginal Australians for dispossession of their land. Signed by Neville T. Bonner, President OPAL.

OPAL (Organisation)

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.

OPAL (Organisation)

An introduction to 'One People of Australia League'.

Black type on white paper. Information booklet. The second page notes it is intended to be the pilot issue of a recommenced quarterly magazine made to raise awareness in the Brisbane community of the work carried out by OPAL. The booklet covers the history, aims and objectives, and key people of OPAL. Includes articles on OPAL's first president Jim Hamilton; Uncle Willie MacKenzie (Geerbaugh), for whom the OPAL Centre (Geerbaugh) on Anne Street was named; the Miss OPAL Quest pageant; and Yelangi Pre-School. Booklet contains an insert of a blank OPAL membership application form; the form indicates it cost $1 to join OPAL and an applicant had to be nominated by two current OPAL members.

OPAL (Organisation)

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.

OPAL (Organisation)

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

Why and how OPAL began and how it worked

Three typescript drafts about One People of Australia League (OPAL), written by Muriel Langford. These expand on the untitled manuscript about how OPAL began but with more information about Muriel's personal experiences in India and when she arrived in Australia and greater detail about how OPAL began and what it did.

Many of the pages in the first draft are on the back of other material; some pages have been pasted or sticky taped together; has no title, 23 leaves in length; undated; accompanied by a short summary, perhaps for a speech.

The second draft is on continuous computer paper and has the title 'Why and how OPAL began, and how it worked'; has handwritten emendations; 28 leaves, numbered; on the last page handwritten in blue pen is 'Copyright ME Langford, 1989 and'.

The third draft is on continuous computer paper and has the title 'Why and how OPAL began, and how it worked'; has handwritten note on the first page 'Draft Reminiscences. E & OE!! Copyright' ; 28 leaves, numbered; on the last page handwritten note 'PO [?] Muriel Langford. Copyright'.

Langford, Muriel E., 1913-2003

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