The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights A Documentary History

by Attwood, Bain; Markus, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781864485844
• ISBN10: 1864485841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Abbreviations Introduction PART 1 - The Nineteenth Century PART 2 - 1920s-1950s PART 3 - 1950s-1970s Sources Index

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Preface	xx
Abbreviations	xxii
Introduction	1	(29)
Part 1 The nineteenth century	30	(28)
Thomas Bruny, editor and writer, Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle, 17 November 1837
Walter George Arthur to Mr G.W. Walker, 30 December 1845
Petition to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 17 February 1846
Mary Ann Arthur to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land, 10 June 1846
Walter George Arthur to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land, 15 July 1846
William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines, to the Commissioner of Lands and Survey, Victoria, 4 March 1859
William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines, to Robert Brough Smyth, Secretary, Victorian Central Board for the Protection of the Aborigines, 5 October 1860
Illustrated Melbourne Post, 25 June 1863. Deputation of Aborigines
Evidence of Thomas Bamfield (also known as Tommy Michie and Punch), 30 September 1881, Board appointed to inquire into Coranderrk Aboriginal Station
Petition, 5 September 1881, Board appointed to inquire into Coranderrk Aboriginal Station
The Leader (Melbourne), Supplement, 15 July 1882. Deputation Of Blackfellows At Parliament House
Coranderrk Aborigines, letter to the editor, Argus, 29 August 1882
Argus, 25 March 1886. Mr Berry And The Aborigines
Herald (Melbourne), 21 September 1886. The Protection Bill and the Coranderrk Blacks
Maloga Petition, 5 July 1881
Maloga Petition, 20 July 1887
William Cooper to J.M. Chanter, MLA, 11 November 1887
Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 1890. Deputations. The Maloga Mission
Residents of Poonindie to Mr Hamilton, Native Protector, South Australia, 8 January 1887.
Thomas Adams, Point Pearce Mission, to Mr Hamilton, Protector of Aborgines, South Australia, [1888]
Poonindie Petition, 2 February 1894
William Adams, Robert Wanganeen, and Henry Angic to the Commissioner of Public Works, South Australia, 19 February 1894
Tom Adams, Point Pearce Mission, to Mr G.W. Hawkes, 2 April 1895
Advertiser, 12 April 1907. Point Macleay Natives. Want More Food and Less Prayer
Part 2 1920s-1950s	58	(112)
Elizabeth McKenzie-Hatton, Secretary, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, letter to the editor, Voice of the North, 12 June 1925
Macleay Argus, 9 October 1925. Gathering Of Aborigines. Conference At Kempsey
Fred Maynard, President, L. Lacey, Secretary, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, to J.T. Lang, Premier of New South Wales, 28 May 1927
Fred Maynard, President, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, to J.T. Lang, Premier of New South Wales, 3 October 1927
Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 1927. Aborigines. Want Racial Equality. Appeal To Churchmen. Letter To The King
A.E. McKenzie-Hatton, Secretary, Fred Maynard, President, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, to the Royal Commission on the Constitution, 22 February 1928
Cinesound Review, no. 100, 29 September 1933. Australian Royalty Pleads for His People. Burraga, chief of Aboriginal Thirroul tribe, to petition the King for blacks' representation in Federal Parliament
King Burraga to Professor A.P. Elkin, President, Association for the Protection of Native Races, 16 January 1936
Evidence of William Ferguson, Secretary, Aborigines Progressive Association, 30 November 1937, Select Committee on the Administration of Aborigines Protection Board, New South Wales
Percy Mosely, Burnt Bridge, to Mr J.J. Moloney, Australian Society of Patriots, 1 July 1937
William Ferguson, `Give Us Justice!', Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 15 October 1937
Jack Patten, radio interview with P.R. Stephensen, January 1938
J.T. Patten and W. Ferguson, Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights! (1938)
Australian Abo Call, no. 1, April 1938. Our Historic Day of Mourning & Protest. Aborigines Conference. Held At Australian Hall, Sydney, 26th January 1938. Report Of Proceedings
Australian Abo Call, no. 1, April 1938. Our Ten Points. Deputation to the Prime Minister
Pearl Gibbs, Woman Today, April 1938. An Aboriginal Woman Asks for Justice
Pearl Gibbs, Secretary, Aborigines Progressive Association, to William Morley, Secretary, Association for the Protection of Native Races, 23 July 1938
Australian Abo Call, no. 5, August 1938. The Colour Bar At Collarenebri
Australian Abo Call, no. 6, September 1938. Land Lease Scandal. Is A.P. Board Entitled To Lease Abo. Reserves?
Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, 2GB Sydney & 2WL Wollongong, 8 June 1941
Albert Hippi and others to J. Mullan, Minister for Justice, Queensland, 1 January 1923
Northern Standard, 24 March 1936. The Larrakeyah Tribe. Concern Of ``Old Men'' For Welfare. Deputation To Visit Col. Weddell
Fanny Thorpe to William Ferguson, Secretary, Aborigines Progressive Association, 14 April 1938
Australian Abo Call, no. 3, June 1938. A Letter From Clive Martin, Stradbroke Island
Australian Abo Call, no. 6, September 1938. Aborigines' Death Pact. Father And Son
Advertiser (Adelaide), 13 December 1909. The Aborigines. Their Claims On The State. Point McLeay Mission
Register (Adelaide), 29 November 1911. Our Black Brothers. A Clever Aborigine. Letter From Mat Kropinjere
Evidence of Aboriginal witnesses, 18 July 1913, South Australian Royal Commission on the Aborigines
Register (Adelaide), 21 December 1923. ``Give Us Our Children''. The Aborigines' Plea. Opposition To New Act
H. Taylor, Point Pearce Mission, to Constance Ternent Cooke, 29 May 1933
Petition of Aborigines to the Government of South Australia, 1935
News (Adelaide), 2 November 1936. David Unaipon's Plea For Natives. Lack Of Understanding And Sympathy Alleged. Control Board Of Men Outside Government Service Urged. Problems Of Aboriginal Race
Age, 18 January 1938. Day Of Mourning. Aborigines Not In Sympathy
Requests submitted by Aborigines, Point Pearce, to the Advisory Council on Aborigines, South Australia, 26 August 1938
John Kickett to Mr Griffiths, 29 August 1918
William Harris, letter to the editor, West Australian, 25 September 1925
William Harris, letter to the editor, Sunday Times, 14 November 1926
Norman Harris to Jim Bassett, 19 April 1927
West Australian, 10 March 1928. Black Man's Burden. A Novel Deputation. Chief Protector Criticised
Norman Harris to Helen Baillie, 15 February 1934
Statements of Aborigines recorded by Mary Bennett. Western Australian Royal Commission to inquire into allegations of the mistreatment of Aborigines, 1934
Petition of `half-caste' women, Broome, January 1935, to the President and Members of the Western Australian Royal Commission to inquire into allegations of the mistreatment of Aborigines
A.T.H. Jolley, President, H. Peter V. Hodge, Secretary, Native Rights Defence Committee, to the Secretary-General, United Nations Organization, 13 June 1946
West Australian, 21 June 1946. Natives' Strike. Alleged Counselling. Charges Against White Man
Tom Sampey, Native Co-operative, Port Headland, Report to the Committee for Defence of Native Rights, 10 February 1947
Circular from Peter Coffin, Elsie Lee, Ernie Mitchell, Donald McLeod, Directorate of Pindan Pty Ltd, 12 August 1957
Shadrach L. James, `Help My People!', Herald (Melbourne), 24 March 1930
William Cooper, letter to the editor, Age, 16 March 1933
William Cooper, petition to the King, Herald (Melbourne), 15 September 1933
William Cooper to Revd E. R. B. Gribble, 17 December 1933
Anna Morgan, `Under the Black Flag', Labor Call, 20 September 1934
Notes of a deputation representing Aborigines to the Minister for the Interior, 23 January 1935
William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to B. Stevens, Premier, New South Wales, 15 November 1936
William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to T. Paterson, Minister for the Interior, 16 June 1937
Herald (Melbourne), 7 August 1937. Aborigines Petition the King, by Clive Turnbull
William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister, 23 May 1938
William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to the Chief Secretary or Minister for Native Affairs, Western Australia, 17 July 1938
William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to the Chairman, Board for the Protection of Aborigines, New South Wales, 28 November 1938
Telegram (from Jack Patten), 3 February 1939, Barmah, Victoria
William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to B. Stevens, Premier, New South Wales, 20 February 1939
``Half Caste Aborigine'' [Margaret Tucker], `Conditions at Cummeroogunga', Workers' Voice, 1 March 1939
Uplift (publication of Aborigines' Uplift Society), November 1940, report from Sun (Melbourne), November 1940. ``White People Must Think Black''. aboriginal Spokesman's Eloquent Plea For His People
Daily News, 28 March 1946. Native JP Attacks White Rule
Herald (Melbourne), 4 October 1946. Native Protest On Australian Bikini. Rocket Test Opposed
William Onus, President, AAL, to Dr Donald Thomson, 7 January 1947
Doug Nicholls, Secretary, AAL, to J.B. Chifley, Prime Minister and Leader of the Australian Labor Party, R.G. Menzies, the Leader of the Australian Liberal Party, and A.W. Fadden, the Leader of the Australian Country Party, 1 July 1949
Argus, 22 January 1951. Oldest Australians Mourn The Jubilee
Argus, 22 February 1951. `Leave Us A Tiny Corner'. Native Plea
Doug Nicholls, Vice-President, Council for Aboriginal Rights, `Natives In Victoria Are Suffering, Too', Argus, 16 January 1957
Tribune, 1 May 1957. Tears Over Aborigine Film. Petition Launched On Aborigines
Part 3 1950s-1970s	170	(103)
Smoke Signals, May 1958 (publication of Victorian Aborigines Advancement League). Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement
Herald (Melbourne), 23 December 1958. Namatjira To Serve Gaol Term
Smoke Signals, October 1959. The A.A.L. and Integration
Gladys O'Shane, President, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League, Cairns Branch, to Stan Davey, Secretary, FCAA, 11 May 1960
Press Statement, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League, Cairns Branch, 14 May 1961
Joe McGinness, Secretary, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League, Cairns, to Stan Davey, Secretary, FCAA, 29 June 1961
FCAA, Police Bashings Mareeba (Qld.) Aborigines Assaulted. Special Bulletin issued by Stan Davey, Secretary, 8 May 1962
FCAA, Petition leaflet, 1962
Council for Aboriginal Rights, Report by Kath Walker on her National Tour launching the petition of FCAA and her speech in Sydney on 6 October 1962
They Have Made Our Rights Wrong, pamphlet authorised by Joe McGinness, Secretary, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander League, Cairns, 6 November 1962
Joe McGinness, President, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League, Cairns, to Frank Nicklin, Premier, Queensland, and Jack Pizzey, Minister for Police and Native Affairs, Queensland, 21 February 1963
Narrijin and others to H.E. Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, Northern Territory, March 1963
Joe McGinness, Address to `Save Lake Tyers' meeting (Melbourne), 22 May 1963
Doug Nicholls, letter to the editor, Age, 27 May 1963
Age, 27 June 1963. Aborigine's Cable Seeks U.N. Inquiry
FCAA, press release, 12 August 1963
Yirrkala petition to the House of Representatives, August 1963
Evidence of Milirrpum, 1 October 1963, Select Committee into the Grievances of the Yirrkala
Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, The Existing Aboriginals Preservation Act, Amendments Which Should Be Made and Why, 1964
Tribune, 8 April 1964. Shameful Story Of Mapoon
Australian, 14 March 1966. Aborigines Ask For Land Rights
Evidence of Herbert Groves, President, Aborigines Progressive Association, 5 April 1966, New South Wales Joint Committee of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly upon Aborigines Welfare
Referendum on Aborigines (Background Notes), prepared by the National Directorate, Vote Yes Campaign (FCAATSI), 31 March 1967
Age, 11 April 1967. No Vote Fear On Rights Issue
Charles Perkins to A.G. Kingsmill, Chairman, New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board, 18 January 1965
Sun, 17 February 1965. Students May Set Up Pickets
Australian, 22 February 1965. Race Tour Bus Driver Walks Out
Star (Lismore), 23 February 1965. Students Arrive In Lismore. To Make Survey Today
Churinga (publication of the Aborigines Progressive Association), December 1965
Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights, Program for Improved Living Standards for Northern Territory Aborigines, leaflet, 1966
Dexter Daniels, President, Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights, press release, Aborigines and Northern Territory Cattle Stations, 25 October 1966
Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General, 19 April 1967
Aboriginal Land Rights Campaign 1968, pamphlet issued by FCAATSI and the Abschol Department of the National Union of Australian University Students
Milirrpum and Others v Nabalco Pty Ltd and Commonwealth of Australia, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Amended statement of claim, 16 March 1970
Yolngu Statement in the Gupapunyngu Language, presented in Canberra to William McMahon, Prime Minister, 6 May 1971
The Gurindji Blues, written by Ted Egan and sung by Egan and Galarrwuy Yunupingu, introduction by Vincent Lingiari, RCA Records, 1971
Churinga, February 1968. New National Group Urged For Aborigines
Kath Walker, `Black-White Coalition Can Work', Origin, 18 September 1969
Charles Perkins, letter to the editor, Australian, 8 April 1968
Neville Bonner, President, OPAL, letter to the editor, Courier Mail, 25 September 1969
Victorian Aborigines Advancement League, Statement on Black Power, 1969
Dulcie Flower, Harriet Ellis, Faith Bandler, Ken Brindle and Pastor Frank Roberts, `Why we believe that Aborigines and Islanders should have allies in their fight for rights and advancement', 1 March 1970
Kath Walker, `Oration' (poem), presented to FCAATSI for use at Parliament House, Canberra, 27 March 1970
National Tribal Council, Policy Manifesto, adopted 13 September 1970
Black Panthers of Australia, Platform and Programme, 1970
Australian, 5 December 1971. Simon Townsend Talks To The Leaders Of The Black Panthers
Age, 28 January 1972. Natives Open `Embassy' Of Their Own
Aboriginal Embassy Land Rights Policy, `5 Point Policy'
Transcript of Monday Conference, ABC Television, 20 March 1972
Herald (Melbourne), 20 July 1972. 120 Fight At Black `Embassy'. Police Rip Out Tents
Age, 24 July 1972. Tent Embassy Sparks Brawl
Joe McGinness, President, FCAATSI, letter to the editor, Nation Review, 12-18 August 1972
West Australian, 12 August 1972. Aboriginal Leaders Want Federal Control
Canberra News, 26 November 1972. Violence Coming: Perkins
Age, 17 January 1974. Blacks To Tell China
Senator Neville Bonner, Parliamentary Debates, 12 March 1974
Hobart Mercury, 1 May 1976. Truganini To Be Disturbed No More
Hobart Mercury, 11 August 1982. Anger Voiced Over Fate Of Skeletons
Part 4 1970s-1998	273	(84)
Advertiser (Adelaide), 17 January 1974. PS Man Hits At Ministers
Sun (Melbourne), 11 June 1975. Blacks Clash With Police
Gary Foley, Publicity Officer, Aboriginal Medical Service, `The history of the Aboriginal Medical Service--a study in bureaucratic obstruction'
The Queensland Aborigines Act and Regulations 1971. Written by the Black Resource Center Collective, 1976. Main contributor Lionel Lacey (Fogarty). Other contributors Cheryl Buchanan and Vincent Brady
Courier Mail, 12 June 1976. Black Man Feels The Lash In 3-Hour Rights Protest
Coe v. Commonwealth of Australia (the first defendant) and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the second defendant). High Court of Australia, 1978
Age, 21 April 1980. Blacks Unite: Mining Doubt
Australian, 30 August 1980. Ban-Breakers Drill Noonkanbah
National Aboriginal Conference Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, on the Makarrata, 1982
Eddie Koiki Mabo, `Land Rights in the Torres Strait', talk delivered at a seminar, Townsville, 28-30 August 1981
Eddie Mabo and [others] v. the State of Queensland and the Commonwealth of Australia. High Court of Australia, 1982.
A Summary of Concerns of the Aboriginal People of Australia Distributed by NAC Chairman, Mr Roy Nichols, at the World Assembly of First Nations, Regina, Canada, 1982. Compiled by NAC Research Unit
Age, 8 October 1983. Tension Over Young Black's Death Erupts Into Violence
Age, 12 October 1984. Aborigines Losing Patience With Labor: NAC Chief
Age, 11 September 1986. On The Road For Black Justice.
Lois O'Donoghue, An Aboriginal and Islander Consultative Organisation (1986)
Neville Bonner, `To My Fellow Countrymen', Age, 8 May 1987
Age, 14 May 1987. Mansell Wants Libya To Help Put Case To UN
Age, 27 May 1987. Aboriginal Advances Threatened: Perkins
Kevin Gilbert, Aboriginal Sovereignty: Justice, the Law and Land. A draft written in consultation with Aboriginal Members of the Sovereign Aboriginal Coalition at Alice Springs on 19-21 June 1987
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, `What The Aboriginal People Want', Age, 26 August 1987
Sun (Melbourne), 27 January 1988. Black Power On The March
Barunga Statement, presented by Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Chairperson of the Northern Land Council, and Wenten Rubuntja, Chairperson of the Central Land Council, to R.J. Hawke, Prime Minister, at the Barunga Festival, 12 June 1988
Age, 6 July 1989. Black Leaders To Seek UN Action Over Jail Deaths
ATSIC, What Is ATSIC (1997)
Kevin Gilbert, Transcript of a speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Day of Protest and Mourning for the 25th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum, 27 May 1992
`Intellectual Prisoners', APG Papers, July 1992
`Towards Aboriginal Sovereignty', APG Papers, July 1992
Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 1992. Aborigines Quit House As Four Arrested
Age, 14 January 1993. Tasmanians To Discuss Claim
Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 1993. NSW Faces Mabo-Style Claim. Aborigines Seeking Native Title Over One-Third Of State
Pat Dodson, Chairperson, Council for Aboriginal Conciliation, Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions, 4 June 1993
Noel Pearson, `Law Must Dig Deeper To Find Land Rights', Australian, 8 June 1993
Lois O'Donoghue, ATSIC Chairperson, Opening statement at media conference, 19 October 1993
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, The Key Issues of Reconciliation, 1994
Mandawuy Yunupingu, `Give Back Our Laws', Herald Sun, 25 January 1994
Australian, 6 October 1994. Native Title Isolates Urban Blacks: Activist
Sydney Morning Herald, 26 January 1995. Mansell Working For A New National Day
Koori Mail, 5 April 1995. ATSIC Lays Its Cards On The Table Over Social Justice Deal
Gary Foley, `Tragedy For Another Aboriginal Generation In Waiting', Age, 20 July 1995
Patrick Dodson, `Reconciliation Misunderstood', Australian, 13 September 1996
Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1996. One Man's Gulf War
Age, 20 February 1997. No ATSIC Funds For Aboriginal Mine Fight
Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1997. A Call To The Nationa. Delegates' Closing Address Reconciliation Summit
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 August 1997. Now The World Watches
Mick Dodson, `We All Bear The Cost If Apology Is Not Paid', Age, 18 December 1997
Australian, 1-2 November 1997. Racist Scum: Pearson Blasts PM
Age, 24 January 1998. A Black View Of Howard's Way
Sources: documents and illustrations	357	(6)
Index	363