Vivienne Abraham - papers concerning Aboriginal affairs, 1954-1992

MLMSS 6222/1-13

series

1954 - 1992

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

135225

1972-1980; Papers concerning the Aboriginal Legal Service Ltd, being papers concerning incorporation, 1972-1975; notes, correspondence and memoranda, 1972-1980; papers concerning Council meetings, 1974-1975, and staff meeting, 18-19 Dec. 1975; reports and minutes of Council meetings, 1972-1975 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/1)
1963-1970, 1977-1978; Papers concerning the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines' and Torres Strait Islanders, being agendas, reports, resolutions and proceedings for/of annual conferences (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/2)
1963-1978; Papers concerning the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines' and Torres Strait Islanders, being mainly concerning 8th, 9th and 10th Annual Conferences, 1965-1967, and affiliation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Federal Pacifist Council to FCAATSI; Annual Conferences, 1968-1978; and printed material, mainly FCAATSI publications, 1963-1971 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/3)

1973-1983; Records of and papers concerning the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council: Contents listed below in ML MSS 6222/4-7:

1976-1979; Papers concerning the Black Defence Group, incorporating the Aboriginal Land Rights Campaign and the establishment of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, mainly concerning the NSW Land Rights Conference, Sydney (N.S.W.), 1-3 Oct. 1977, including mailing lists and letters of support received (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1977-1979; Black Defence Group - correspondence concerning, among other things, Koorakookoo newsletter, and rough minutes of the NSW Land Rights Conference, 1-3 Oct. 1977 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1977-1979; Black Defence Group - corespondence and printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1977-1979; New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council - correspondence (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1973, 1976-1979; Black Defence Group - papers mainly concerning NSW Land Rights Conference, 1-3 Oct. 1977, including applications for conference, financial records, expressions of support, and copies of Aboriginal Lands Trust of NSW letters, 1976 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1977-1979; Black Defence Group - minutes of the NSW Land Rights Conference, 1977, with aims adopted; and papers concerning the Aboriginal Land Rights Teach-In, 17-18 Mar. 1979, and the Land Rights Support Group (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1977-1980; Papers concerning the Black Defence Group and the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, including issues of Koorakookoo, nos 1-3, 1978?-1979 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/4)
1977-1980 ; Papers concerning the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1979-1980; New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council - 1979 Questionnaire mainly concerning the Land Rights Conference (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1977-1980; Papers concerning the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, being mainly correspondence, minutes of meetings, aims and printed material (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1977-1982; Papers concerning the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council mainly concerning the NSW Parliamentary Select Committee upon Aborigines and the North Coast Land Council (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1979-1981; 'ALC - Land Claims', being copies of claims concerning La Perouse, Yuin Tribe, Wallaga Lake, with copy of Brian J. Egloff's Mumbulla Mountain: An Anthropological and Archaeological Investigation. Sydney: National Parks and Wildlife Service [1979] and a copy of Land Claims in NSW, reprinted by New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, May 1981 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1979-1981; Papers concerning submissions to the NSW Parliamentary Select Committee upon Aborigines, 1979, and the Aboriginal Land Rights Support Group (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1980; Attendance book of New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council meetings, 3-4 May 1980 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1979-1982; 'Correspondence 1979: Out / Mailing Lists Etc' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/5)
1978-1983; New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council - financial records, including cash books, 30 Mar. 1978-30 Sep. 1981; ledger, Mar. 1978-1981, with Report on Wilcannia Trip, 27 Nov.-6 Dec. 1980, and related correspondence (2 folders) (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/6)
1976-1981; Printed material mainly concerning Land Rights and Uranium Mining, including issues of Land Rights News, 1976-1979, and Aboriginal Land Rights Support Group Newsletter, 1979-1981, and two photographs of Aboriginal adults and children with placards for equal rights, 1967? (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/6)
1973-1980; Printed material mainly concerning Aboriginal sites in NSW (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/6)
1975-1980; Aboriginal Lands Trust of New South Wales Reports (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/6)
1978-1981; Papers concerning First and Second Reports from the Select Committee upon Aborigines, including copies of the two reports, and papers concerning the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial Meeting and Land Rights Symposium, 21-22 May 1980 (Call No.: ML MSSS 6222/7)

Subject files, arranged alphabetically by keyword/subject. Contents listed below in ML MSS 6222/8-12:

1964-1970; Papers concerning Aboriginal affairs (General) and the Aborigines' Advancement League (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1975-1978; Papers concerning Aboriginal affairs (General) and the Aboriginal Lands Trust (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1978-1982; Papers mainly concerning the Australian Development Commission (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1976; Papers concerning the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1986-1991; 'Aborigines - NSW - Current' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
Date unknown; Letterheads of Aborigines' Progressive Association and Burra Enterprises, real estate agents, Five Dock (N.S.W.) (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1954-1976; Papers concerning Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, with copies of NSW legislation concerning Aborigines (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1986-1991; 'Black Deaths in Custody' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1991-1992; Papers concerning Doonoch Self-Healing Aboriginal Corporation (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1976-1981; Papers concerning financial assistance to and human rights of Aborigines (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1965; Newscuttings concerning the Aboriginal Freedom Ride, 1965 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1972-1973; 'Kevin Gilbert' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1977-1979; Papers mainly concerning State Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Housing Agreement (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/8)
1966-1976; 'Aboriginal Land Rights etc.', including correspondence with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Vivienne abraham's report on FCAATSI, Feb. 1971 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/9)
1976; Papers concerning the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill (Northern Territory) and the Aboriginals Councils and Associations Bill, 1976 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/9)
1968, 1976-1978; 'NT Land Rights', being papers concerning Land Rights in the Northern Territory, and Arukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal Reserves (Qld) (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/9)
1969-1971; Papers concerning Victorian Churches and Aboriginal Land Rights (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/9)
1963, 1978-1980; Records of the Arukun and Mornington Island Support Group, Sydney (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/9)
1974-1978; Uniting Church in Australia Information Kits concerning the Arukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal communities (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/9)
1970; 'Sydney - Fasts for Land Rts', being papers mainly concerning fasts, chiefly by Aarn Tate, and vigils in support of land rights for the Gurindji people at Wattie Creek (N.T.) by Aarn Tate of The Family of Man (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/10)
1966, 1970-1976; 'Land Rts Etc', being mainly printed material including Quaker publications (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/10)
1990; 'Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NSW)', including proofs of Aboriginal Land Rights (Amendment) Bill, 1990, and proofs of bills and parliamentary debates (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/10)
1979, 1983-1991; Papers mainly concerning changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NSW) 1983 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/10)
1981-1986; 'Aboriginal land Rights - Etc.', being papers mainly compiled by Vivienne Abraham as Honorary Secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australian Section) (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/10)
1974; Papers concerning Aborigines and the Law Seminar, Centre for Research into Aboriginal Affairs, Monash University, 12-16 July 1974 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/11)
1976; Papers concerning Aborigines and the Law Seminar, Australian Institue of Criminology, Canberra, 7-11 July 1976 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/11)
1972; Papers concerning the National Council of Aboriginal Women (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/11)
1949-1953; Newscuttings concerning Aboriginal affairs, including Daisy Bates, the Iramoo tribe, half-caste Aborigines and the education of Aborigines (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/11)
1988-1992; Newscuttings concerning Aboriginal affairs (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/11)
1985; Post-Release Support for Aboriginal Prisoners: Designing an Action-Research Project, being a paper by Dr Christian Alexander, Department of Social Work, University of Sydney, Dec. 1985 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/11)
1976-1981; 'Queensland Aborigines Legislation' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)
1965-1966; Papers concerning Referendum on Aboriginal rights (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)
1975-1981; Papers mainly concerning statistical information on Aboriginal grants-in-aid projects and the employment of Aborigines (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)
1977-1982; Papers concerning Uranium Mining, Aborigines and the Australian Government (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)
1948-1950; Papers concerning the Victorian Aboriginal Group, 1949-1950, and the New Education Fellowship (Victorian Section) Sub-Committee on Aborigines, 1948-1949 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)
1948-1949; Papers concerning Aborigines and the Woomera Rocket Range (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)
1971-1976, date unknown; 'Yirawala [West Arnhem Land, N.T. painter, 1903-1976]' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/12)

Subject files originally received together in one box, listed below in ML MSS 6222/13:

1970-1971; 'National Tribal Council' (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)
1963-1972; Papers mainly concerning the NSW Aboriginal Land Conference, 1971; Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Campaign, 1964; Moratorium for Black Rights, 14 July 1972; Aboriginal Education Council (N.S.W.), 1968-1969; Consultative Committee on Aboriginal Education, 1965-1969, with issues of Fellowship, monthly bulletin of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, 1963-1969 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)
1963-1979; Aboriginal publications, including Aim (incorporating Koori-Bina), no.4 June 1970 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)
1967-1971; Papers mainly concerning AISHRA Social Welfare Health Association (Qld), 1971, and Queensland Aboriginal organisations, 1967-1969 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)
1964-1972; Papers concerning Abschol (National Union of Australian Union of Students (NUAUS) Aboriginal Scholarship Scheme (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)
1963-1981; Papers mainly concerning FCAATSI; Land Rights and Uranium Mining; Aboriginal Education Conference, University of Sydney, 1966; and copies of University of New England Department of Extension papers prepared on Aboriginal issues, 1968 (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)
1959-1981; Papers concerning the Co-Operative for Aborigines Limited, including issues of the Co-Operative's journal, Mili Mili, no.1, Aug. 1972-no.10 Sep. 1976 (excluding issue no.9) (Call No.: ML MSS 6222/13)

Author/Artist entries:
Aboriginal Education Council (N.S.W.)
Aboriginal Lands Trust of New South Wales
Aboriginal Legal Service Ltd
Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship
Aborigines Advancement League (Vic.)
Aborigines Progressive Association
Abschol (Australia)
Alexander, Christian
Arukun and Mornington Island Support Group
Australia. Aboriginal Land Fund Commission
Australia. Aboriginal Land Rights Commission
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
Black Defence Group
Consultative Committee on Aboriginal Education (N.S.W.)
Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd
Doonoch Self-Healing Aboriginal Corporation
Egloff, Brian, 1940-
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Gilbert, Kevin, 1933-1993
National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women
National Tribal Council
New Education Fellowship in Australia. Victorian Section. Sub-Committee on Aborigines
New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council
New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee upon Aborigines
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia
Tate, Aarn
Uniting Church in Australia
Victorian Aboriginal Group
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Australian Section