Torres Strait Islanders

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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)

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)

To those responsible for the welfare of the Aboriginal people on Cherbourg Reserve

A copy of a written statement addressed to ‘Those Responsible for the Welfare of the Aboriginal People of Cherbourg Reserve’, in which a resident expresses dissatisfaction with the conduct of an Aboriginal Councillor on the Cherbourg Reserve, who is reported to have assaulted another member of the Reserve with his son. The statement is accompanied by a form letter signed by Denis Walker, who states that Davidson is concerned her statement will result in discriminatory retaliation against her by the administrations of the Aboriginal and Islander Affairs Act of 1965. The statement also contains a list of fifteen individuals who have been identified as being responsible for the welfare of Aboriginal residents of the Cherbourg Reserve, consisting of politicians as well as high-ranking figures in philanthropic and advocacy organisations.

Act Confrontation Movement (Brisbane, Qld.)

Black Women's Action

A commemorative newsletter published by the Black Women's Action Committee, commemorating the anniversary 1787, the last year of Black freedom and self-government in Australia and to mark the twentieth anniversary of the recognition of Aboriginal citizenship of Australia. The newsletter also gives a history of the Committee and their advocacy and objectives

Black Women's Action Committee

The attempted extermination of the Aboriginal population in colonial Queensland

Pamphlet detailing the history of white colonialist violence and displacement of Aboriginal Australians in Queensland, and how Aboriginal Australians continue to face inequitable treatment and discrimination. The pamphlet uses this history as a framework to contextualise contemporary activism, specifically the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, and requests those interested in participating in the Embassy to contact the Black Rights Committee. Undated, but is assumed to be from 1972, as the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is spoken of as a current event.

Black Rights Committee

Link-Up (Qld) sticker.

Bumper sticker that reads 'Link-Up' in block letters along with the Link-Up logo from the time, an outline of Queensland, yellow, against two concentric circles, one red and one black.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Link-Up (Qld) information brochure.

Trifold print brochure with information on the services and aims of Link-Up (Qld). Features eleven photographs, black and white, of various unidentified children and adolescents, as well as a black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous Australian children with two Indigenous Australian women credited to the John Oxley Library. Also features an artwork by Ted Watson that shows concentric bands of brown and red lined with dots and intersected by yellow flowing lines containing blue and purple human figures, accompanied by the artist's description of the meaning of the art.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

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