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activism
...some second rate Black school...
Audio
1973-1985
activism, Black Community School, Black Community School, education, Townsville
...My name is Edward Mabo...
Text
1980s
activism, Cook, Captain James, Mabo, Edward Koiki, manifesto, Queensland Government
...an agitator...
Video
1962-1992
activism, resistance
...he was going to win...
Text
1982-92
activism, diaries, Mabo, Bonita, Mabo Case, resistance
...struggles I been through over the past years...
Text
1991-1992
activism, cancer, death, diaries, human rights, resistance
...a symbol of strength...
Text
 
activism, backlash, desecration, human rights, racism, resistance, tombstone ceremony
Activist
Topic
1962-1992
activism, human rights, indigenous rights, Mabo, Edward Koiki, politics, Torres Strait, Townsville
Advancement League
Topic
1962-1970
Aboriginal Advancement League, activism, Townsville
Exile
Topic
1953-1957
activism, exile, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mer, Mer, Murray Island, Murray Island Council, pearling industry, Torres Strait
Gardener At James Cook University
Topic
1967-1975
activism, Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, employment, James Cook University, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Townsville
Inter-Racial Seminar
Topic
1967
1967 referendum, activism, civil rights, education, employment, indigenous Australians, Inter-racial Seminar, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Townsville
...He was determined...
Video
1980s-1991
activism, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Mabo, Gail, resistance
...I started to question the system...
Audio
1953
activism, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Queensland Government
The Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association
Image and Text
1920-1927
activism, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, dispossession, Maynard, Fred, New South Wales, Protection Boards, rations, reserves, resistance
A model Aboriginal state
Text
1920-1927
activism, Arnhem Land, coexistence, dispossession, Gove, humanitarians, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, reserves, Yirrkala
The Australian Aborigines League
Image and Text
1933-1938
activism, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, Australian Aborigines League, coexistence, Cooper, William, Day of Mourning (1938), New South Wales, reserves, South Australia, Victoria
Lousy Little Sixpence
Video
1938
activism, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, Australian Aborigines League, Cooper, William, Day of Mourning (1938)
An alternative view of reserves: the conference of Aboriginal organisations
Text
1958
activism, assimilation, FCAATSI Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement , Hasluck, Paul, land rights, racism, reconciliation, reserves, Torres Strait Islanders
...the Undersigned aboriginal people of Yirrkala...
Image and Text
1963
activism, Arnhem Land, bark petition, Beazley, Kim Snr., Blackburn, Justice, Bryant, Gordon, Gove, Hasluck, Paul, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, resistance, Wells, Reverend Edgar, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
The tradition of bark painting at Yirrkala
Image and Text
 
activism, anthropology, Arnhem Land, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, culture, Gove, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, missionaries, missions, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
...Land, the underlying issue...
Image and Text
1967-1975
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), activism, Australian Labor Party, Communist Party of Australia, Gurindji, land rights, pastoral industry, pastoral lease, resistance, resistance, strike, trade unions, Vestey, Lord, Whitlam, Gough
Vote 'Yes'
Topic
1967
1967 referendum, activism, citizenship, human rights, Inter-racial Seminar, justice, Mabo, Edward Koiki, vote
Land not the issue in 1967
Text
1968
1967 referendum, activism, citizenship, Gurindji, human rights, Inter-racial Seminar, justice, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Northern Territory, vote
FCAATSI: Land Rights
Text
1969
1967 referendum, Aboriginal Advancement League, activism, FCAATSI Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement , land rights
Press Criticism
Text
1970
1967 referendum, activism, Gurindji, land rights, Northern Territory, Vestey, Lord
Gough Whitlam and the mandate of 1967
Image and Text
1967-1968
1967 referendum, activism, Australian Labor Party, land rights, Whitlam, Gough
Don Dunstan's 1966 reforms
Image and Text
1966-1972
1967 referendum, activism, Dunstan, Don, Gove Case, land rights, reserves, South Australia, vote
Tent Embassy
Topic
1972
activism, Australian Labor Party, Foley, Gary, land rights, resistance, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
ABC TV NEWS, Tent Embassy
Video
1972
activism, Australian Labor Party, Foley, Gary, land rights, resistance, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
Roberta Sykes (Embassy activist) on the Embassy
Image and Text
1973
activism, Australian Labor Party, FCAATSI Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement , Foley, Gary, land rights, resistance, Sykes, Bobbi, tent embassy, Torres Strait Islanders, Whitlam, Gough
Aboriginal Land Fund Commission
Text
1975-80
activism, Australian Labor Party, land rights, McMahon, William, Northern Territory, resistance, Whitlam, Gough
Noonkanbah
Topic
1979
activism, Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberleys, mining, Noonkanbah, resistance, unionism, Western Australia
Noonkanbah, a History
Text
1880-1980
activism, activism, Court, Sir Charles, Fitzroy Crossing, Fraser, Malcolm, Kimberleys, mining, Noonkanbah, resistance, unionism, Western Australia
Noonkanbah, a History
Text
1880-1980
activism, activism, Court, Sir Charles, Fitzroy Crossing, Fraser, Malcolm, Kimberleys, mining, Noonkanbah, resistance, unionism, Western Australia
...Land Rights...
Audio
 
activism, land rights, songs
The nineteenth century roots of late twentieth century 'enlightenment'
Text
 
1967 referendum, activism, anthropology, Australian Labor Party, Dunstan, Don, Hawke, Bob, humanitarians, land rights, Mabo judgement, New South Wales, Noonkanbah, Northern Territory, Queensland, Ranger Uranium Mine, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Whitlam, Gough, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
...Stressed to the Max...
Text
 
activism, activism, Mabo, Eddie Jnr., Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Townsville
...Stressed to the Max...
Text
 
activism, activism, Mabo, Eddie Jnr., Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Townsville
...A bad temper...
Text
1962-1992
activism, Mabo, Bonita, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family
...Four Corners...
Text
 
activism, activism, Mabo, Eddie Jnr., Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Townsville
...Four Corners...
Text
 
activism, activism, Mabo, Eddie Jnr., Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Townsville
...The Blues...
Text
 
activism, Mabo, Eddie Jnr., Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Mabo, Gail, music, Townsville
...Intense and Passionate...
Text
 
activism, Mabo, Eddie Jnr., Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Mabo, Gail, music, Townsville
...Very Politically Active...
Text
 
activism, James Cook University, Loos, Noel, Mabo, Edward Koiki, resistance, Townsville
...I'm Going To Win...
Text
 
activism, Mabo, Bonita, Mabo Case, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo v Queensland No.2
...He'd jump on the bus...
Text
 
activism, employment, funding, Mabo, Bonita, Mabo Case, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family
Black Activist
Topic
1972-1980
activism, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Townsville, Townsville, Yumba Meta Housing Co-op
Red
Topic
1970s
activism, Communist Party of Australia, Mabo, Edward Koiki, unionism
Resistance
Topic
 
activism, land rights, land rights, resistance, strike, unionism
Visionary
Topic
 
activism, Mabo Case, Mabo, Edward Koiki
Manifestos
Topic
 
activism, education, Mabo, Edward Koiki
Tent 'Embassy' defiant
Newspaper
1972
activism, Canberra, land rights, land rights, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
A price on our guilt
Newspaper
1972
activism, Canberra, land rights, McMahon, William, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
Inside & Outside
Topic
1960-1981
activism, Mabo Case, Malo's laws, Meriam culture, Mimi, Marou, Passi, Reverend Dave, Torres Strait, Torres Strait Islanders
Day of Mourning
Image
1938
aborigines, activism, Australia Day, 1938, conference, Day of Mourning (1938), land rights, Sydney
Erecting Tent Embassy
Image
1982
activism, Canberra, Perkins, Charles, tent embassy
Police grapple with demonstrators- Tent Embassy
Image
1982
activism, Canberra, tent embassy