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THE STRUGGLE for ABORIGINAL RIGHTS a Documentary History THE STRUGGLE FOR ABORIGINAL RIGHTS A documentary history Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus ALLEN & UNWIN CONTENTS Illustrations xv Acknowledgnents xvii Preface . xx Abbreuiations xxii Introduction 1 Part 1 The nineteenth century 30 1. Thomas Bruny, editor and writer, Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle, 17 November 1837 2. Walter George Arthur to Mr G.W. Walker, 30 December 1845 3. Petition to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 17 February 1846 4. Mary Ann Arthur to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land, 10 June 1846 5. Walter George Arthur to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land, 15 July 1846 6. William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines, to the Commissioner of Lands and Survey, Victoria, 4 March 1859 7. William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines, to Robert Brough Smyth, Secretary, Victorian Central Board for the Protection of the Aborigines, 5 October 1860 8. Illustrated Melbourne Post, 25 June 1863. Deputation Of Aborigines 9. Evidence of Thomas Bamfield (also known as Tommy Michie and Punch), 30 September 1881, Board appointed to inquire into Coranderrk Aboriginal Station 10. Petition, 5 September 1881, Board appointed to inquire into Coranderrk Aboriginal Station vi Struggle for A boriginal Rights 11. The Leader (Melbourne), Supplement, 15 July 1882. Deputation Of Blackfellows At Parliament House 12. Coranderrk Aborigines, letter to the editor, Argis, 29 August 1882 13. Argus, 25 March 1886. Mr Berry And The Aborigines 14. Herald (Melbourne), 21 September 1886. The Protection Bill and the Coranderrk Blacks 15. Maloga Petition, 5 July 1881 16. Maloga Petition, 20 July 1887 17. William Cooper to J.M. Chanter, MLA, 11 November 1887 18. Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 1890. Deputations. The Maloga Mission 19. Residents of Poonindie to Mr Hamilton, Native Protector, South Australia, 8 January 1887 20. Thomas Adams, Point Pearce Mission, to Mr Hamilton, Protector of Aborgines, South Australia, [1888] 21. Poonindie Petition, 2 February 1894 22. William Adams, Robert Wanganeen, and Henry Angic to the Commissioner of Public Works, South Australia, 19 February 1894 23. Tom Adams, Point Pearce Mission, to Mr G.W. Hawkes, 2 April 1895 24. Advertiser, 12 April 1907. Point Madeay Natives. Want More Food and Less Prayer Part 2 1920s-1950s 58 25. Elizabeth McKenzie-Hatton, Secretary, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, letter to the editor, Voice of the North, 12 June 1925 26. Madeay Argus, 9 October 1925. Gathering Of Aborigines. Conference At Kempsey 27. Fred Maynard, President, L. Lacey, Secretary, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, to J.T. Lang, Premier of New South Wales, 28 May 1927 28. Fred Maynard, President, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, to J.T. Lang, Premier of New South Wales, 3 October 1927 29. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 1927. Aborigines. Want Racial Equality. Appeal To Churchmen. Letter To The King 30. A.E. McKenzie-Hatton, Secretary, Fred Maynard, President, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, to the Royal Commission on the Constitution, 22 February 1928 Contents vii 31. CinesoundReview, no. 100, 29 September 1933. Australian Royally Pleads for His People. Burraga, chief of Aboriginal Thirroul tribe, to petition the King for blacks' representation in Federal Parliament 32. King Burraga to Professor A.P. Elkin, President, Association for the Protection of Native Races, 16 January 1936 33. Evidence of William Ferguson, Secretary, Aborigines Progressive Association, 30 November 1937, Select Committee on the Administration of Aborigines Protection Board, New South Wales 34. Percy Mosely, Burnt Bridge, to Mr JJ. Moloney, Australian Society of Patriots, 1 July 1937 35. William Ferguson, 'Give Us Justice!', Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 15 October 1937 36. Jack Patten, radio interview with P.R. Stephensen, January 1938 37. J.T. Patten and W. Ferguson, A borigines Claim Citizen Rights! (1938) 38. 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 39. Australian Abo Call, no. 1, April 1938. Our Ten Points. Deputation to the Prime Minister 40. Pearl Gibbs, Woman Today, April 1938. An Aboriginal Woman Asks for Justice 41. Pearl Gibbs, Secretary, Aborigines Progressive Association, to William Morley, Secretary, Association for the Protection of Native Races, 23 July 1938 42. A ustralian A bo Call, no. 5, August 1938. The Colour Bar At Collarenebri 43. Australian Abo Call, no. 6, September 1938. Land Lease Scandal. Is AP. Board Entitled To Lease Abo. Reserves? 44. Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, 2GB Sydney & 2WL Wollongong, 8 June 1941 45. Albert Hippi and others to J. Mullan, Minister for Justice, Queensland, 1 January 1923 46. Northern Standard, 24 March 1936. The Larrakeyah Tribe. Concern Of "Old Men" For Welfare. Deputation To Visit Col. Weddell 47. Fanny Thorpe to William Ferguson, Secretary, Aborigines Progressive Association, 14 April 1938 48. Australian Abo Call, no. 3, June 1938. A Letter From Qive Martin, Stradbroke Island 49. Australian Abo Call, no. 6, September 1938. Aborigines' Death Pact. Father And Son viii Struggle for A boriginal R ights 50. Advertiser (Adelaide), 13 December 1909. The Aborigines. Their Claims On The State. Point McLeay Mission 51. Register (Adelaide), 29 November 1911. Our Black Brothers. A Clever Aborigine. Letter From Mat Kropinjere 52. Evidence of Aboriginal witnesses, 18 Jury 1913, South Australian Royal Commission on the Aborigines 53. Register (Adelaide), 21 December 1923. "Give Us Our Children". The Aborigines' Plea. Opposition To New Act 54. H. Taylor, Point Pearce Mission, to Constance Ternent Cooke, 29 May 1933 55. Petition of Aborigines to the Government of South Australia, 1935 56. 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 57. Age, 18 January 1938. Day Of Mourning. Aborigines Not In Sympathy 58. Requests submitted by Aborigines, Point Pearce, to the Advisory Council on Aborigines, South Australia, 26 August 1938 59. John Kickett to Mr Griffiths, 29 August 1918 60. William Harris, letter to the editor, West Australian, 25 September 1925 61. William Harris, letter to the editor, Sunday Tones, 14 November 1926 62. Norman Harris to Jim Bassett, 19 April 1927 63. West Australian, 10 March 1928. Black Man's Burden. A Novel Deputation. Chief Protector Criticised 64. Norman Harris to Helen Baillie, 15 February 1934 65. Statements of Aborigines recorded by Mary Bennett. Western Australian Royal Commission to inquire into allegations of the mistreatment of Aborigines, 1934 66. 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 67. A.TH. Jolley, President, H. Peter V. Hodge, Secretary, Native Rights Defence Committee, to the Secretary-General, United Nations Organization, 13 June 1946 68. West Australian, 21 June 1946. Natives' Strike. Alleged Counselling. Charges Against White Man 69. Tom Sampey, Native Co-operative, Port Hedland, Report to the Committee for Defence of Native Rights, 10 February 1947 70. Circular from Peter Coffin, Elsie Lee, Ernie Mitchell, Donald McLeod, Directorate of Pindan Pty Ltd, 12 August 1957 71. Shadrach L. James, Help My People!', Herald (Melbourne), 24 March 1930 Contents ix 72. William Cooper, letter to the editor, Age, 16 March 1933 73. William Cooper, petition to the King, Herald (Melbourne), 15 September 1933 74. William Cooper to Revd E. R. B. Gribble, 17 December 1933 75. Anna Morgan, Under the Black Flag', Labor Call, 20 September 1934 76. Notes of a deputation representing Aborigines to the Minister for the Interior, 23 January 1935 77. William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to B. Stevens, Premier, New South Wales, 15 November 1936 78. William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to T. Paterson, Minister for the Interior, 16 June 1937 79. Herald (Melbourne), 7 August 1937. Aborigines Petition the King, by Clive Tumbull 80. William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to J A. Lyons, Prime Minister, 23 May 1938 81. William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to the Chief Secretary or Minister for Native Affairs, Western Australia, 17 July 1938 82. William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to the Chairman, Board for the Protection of Aborigines, New South Wales, 28 November 1938 83. Telegram (from Jack Patten), 3 February 1939, Barmah, Victoria 84. William Cooper, Secretary, AAL, to B. Stevens, Premier, New South Wales, 20 February 1939 85. "Half Caste Aborigine" [Margaret Tucker], 'Conditions at Cummeroogunga', Workers' Voice, 1 March 1939 86. 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 87. Daily News, 28 March 1946. Native JP Attacks White Rule 88. Herald (Melbourne), 4 October 1946. Native Protest On Australian Bikini. Rocket Test Opposed 89. William Onus, President, AAL, to Dr Donald Thomson, 7 January 1947 90. Doug Nicholls, Secretary, AAL, to J.B. Chifley, Prime Minister and Leader of the Australian Labor Party, KG. Menzies, the Leader of the Australian Liberal Party, and A.W. Fadden, the Leader of the Australian Country Party, 1 July 1949 91. A rgus, 22 January 1951. Oldest Australians Mourn The Jubilee 92. Argus, 22 February 1951. *Leave Us A Tiny Corner'. Native Plea 93. Doug Nicholls, Vice-President, Council
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