Sam Edenborough papers, 1952-1983

MLMSS 9223

fonds

1952-1983

873604

1 metre of textual records (6 boxes)

Mr Edenborough worked as Treasurer of the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions and also Treasurer of the Board of Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the Presbyterian Church till 1977. He then worked as an accountant with the Commission for World Mission in the Uniting Church until his retirement. These records contain Mr Edenborough's notes of numerous visits he made to Aboriginal communities and to mission work of the Presbyterian/Uniting Churches in other countries. They also include personal copies of some of the Mission Board's documents.

BOX 1
'Message stick on Missions' by the Aboriginal Missions Department.
Sundry unsorted letters, 1970-1978.
PNG and Solomon Islands, 1978-1981.
Korea, 1962-1979.
India and Indonesia, 1976; 1980.
New Hebrides, 1952-1980.
New Hebrides Independence, 1978-1980.
New Hebrides: Education, Health, Visit report of Board Staff, 1962-1975.
Coemar Devolvement 1977 and various reports.

BOX 2
First (Inaugural) Assembly of the Uniting Church of Australia 1977.
NSW State Assembly Aborigines and Overseas Missions Reports, 1962-1977.
Commission For World Mission AGM Reports 1975-1981.
Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions (APBM) Priorities Committees 1973.
Weipa problems 1976.
Mapoon. APBM withdrawal.
Final All Saints College Newsletter, 1971
Queensland Government, APBM. Relations meeting. 1972-1975.
Queensland Presbyterian Board of Missions, General reports 1961-1977.
Mowanjum Community Djowad quarter; Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Regional Seminar, Derby June 1974.
Ernabella Arts Incorporated, 1983.
'Sacred sites and their protection' by Albert Barunga, 1972.

BOX 3
Aboriginal Land Rights - Mining, 1982-2002.
Future of Aboriginal Missions; Decentralisation of outstations; APBM/DOEMAR General Administration; SMH cuttiings on ABUR issues. 1967-1977.
Alcohol dispute Aurukun school teachers, 1976; Aboriginal health issues, 1966.
Community self-management; education; working conditions, 1977.
Wages unemployment benefits, 1966.
Gospel for Aborigines, 1980.
Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Board of Ecumenical Mission and Relations (BOEMAR), Aurukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal Communities.
Aboriginal policies of Government.
S.G.E. working papers on APBM and Aboriginal culture; Talks re Message Stick.
Aboriginal background and kinship: APBM understanding and policy, 1960s.

BOX 4
General background on Aurukun community, mining, script of tape recording, 1974-1977.
Aurukun and Mornington Island: transfer administration enterprises, 1974
Aurukun Associates Agreement Act 1975 background.
Copy of Act and Hansard of Aurukun Associates Agreement Act 1975.
Queensland Local Govt (Aboriginal lands) Bill 1978.
Queensland Local Govt (Aboriginal lands) Act 1978 newspaper cuttings. Aurukun and Mornington Island 1978 Act to create Local Authority Agreement.
Queensland Local Govt (Aboriginal lands) Act 1978 and prior acts, more data 1976-1978.

BOX 5
Queensland Local Govt (Aboriginal lands) Act 1978 and prior acts, Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs letters and JP Brown summary.
Mornington Island - new church opening 1980.
General correspondence and documents for Mornington Island, 1972-1978.
Northern Territory (including Finke/Aputula) 1963-1980.
Aboriginal Australians, N.S.W., 1979-1983.

BOX 6
Notebooks.
A1-A37. Aboriginal Communities. 1962-1978.
BA1-BA3. Base Administration. Notes on the Board, meetings, conferences, discussions. 1962-1966.
O1-O6. Overseas trips. 1963-1978.

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