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Documents - Campaigning for land rights, 1963-68

Four major issues in assimilation

Four major issues in assimilation

National Missionary Council of Australia, June 1963

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Aboriginal land rights editorial

Aboriginal land rights editorial

On Aboriginal Affairs, no. 7, March-April 1963

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Member for Fremantle Kim Beazley Snr raised land rights issues in Parliament in May 1973

Parliamentary speech on land rights, 1963

Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, 23 May 1963, pp. 1795-97

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Page 1 of 16 This issue contained a range of articles on land rights issues, both in Australia and overseas.

On Aboriginal Affairs, 1964

On Aboriginal Affairs, No. 12, July-August 1964

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Page 1 of 8 Frank Engel, General Secretary of the Australian Council of Churches, set out the main arguments for land rights in this pamphlet.

Land Rights of Australian Aborigines, Frank Engel, 1965

Box 11, Folder 12, Gordon Bryant Papers, MS 8256, National Library of Australia

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Methodist Commission on Aboriginal Affairs

Methodist Commission on Aboriginal Affairs

Methodist Church of Australasia, Victoria and Tasmania Conference, Commission on Aboriginal Affairs, 1967

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FCAATSI presidential report, Easter 1968

FCAATSI presidential report, Easter 1968

Council of Aboriginal Rights papers, MS 12913/10/8, State Library of Victoria

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Abschol leaflet supporting the campaign for Aboriginal land rights

Abschol leaflet supporting the campaign for Aboriginal land rights

Bryant papers, MS 8256, National Library of Australia

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'Black, white in 24-hour vigil' by Don Sharpe and John Jost

'Black, white in 24-hour vigil' by Don Sharpe and John Jost

The Age, 20 June 1968

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Page 1 of 4 This document contains the statement by the Minister for the Interior, PJ Nixon, on 8 August 1968 regarding Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights.

Aboriginal Land Rights statement, 1968

Peter Nixon, Aboriginal Land Rights leaflet, Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra, 1968.

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Leaflet advertising land rights meeting, Brisbane, 1968

Leaflet advertising land rights meeting, Brisbane, 1968

Riley Ephemera collection, State Library of Victoria

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Mick Rangiari interview

Mick Rangiari interview

Northern Territory Archives Service

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Land rights petition, FCAATSI, 1968

Land rights petition, FCAATSI, 1968

Pittock papers, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University

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Barrie Pittock, convenor of the Legislative Reform Committee of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1966, wrote this history of FCAATSI.

Easter 1970 and the origins of the National Tribal Council: a personal view

Courtesy Barrie Pittock

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