Series 1: Papers of Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1930s-2010

MLMSS 11853
DC 57/1-35

series

1930s-2010

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Cartographic Materials, Clippings, Drawings, Ephemera

9670457

10.04 metres of textual material (59 boxes, 1 outsize box) includes photographs
34 computer discs - floppy disks - 3.5 in.
1 computer disc - compact disc - 12 cm

Ruby Langford Ginibi is an award-winning Aboriginal author and an elder of the Bundjalung people of northern NSW.

Box 1

My Bundjalung people / Ruby Langford Ginibi
Typescript with manuscript additions and editorial markings, 1989-1991
Computer printout of text with corrections, 1989-1991

Box 2

My Bundjalung people / Ruby Langford Ginibi
Corrected typescript and manuscript additions and inserts, 1989-1991

Box 3

My Bundjalung people / Ruby Langford Ginibi
Photocopy of typescript from publisher, Collins, Angus & Robertson, 1990
Photographs from the book
Cut and paste inserts, deletions from the manuscript
Photocopies of news cuttings related to Aboriginal issues, 1989-1993
Research, articles, correspondence and reports relating to Aboriginal issues; includes copy of The Stolen Generations : the removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales, 1883 to 1969 / by Peter Read (1998), annotated by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1988-1998

Box 4

Correspondence, 1989-1992 correspondents include Dawn Lord, Marg Bowman, Ian Watson, Pam Johnston, Martin Ruddell, Marie McInnes, Aileen Parker, Bulagan (Lindsay Johnson), Chris Sidoti, Rosemary Rule, Chiefy Pie, Deborah West

Correspondence, January-March 1992 correspondents include Clare Forster, Owen Mortimer, Mary Ralston, Diana Baker, Lizz Murphy, Max Suich, Kerry Seymour-Smith, Peter Anderson MP, Jen Gelder, Margaret Bradford, Gabrielle Dalton, Department of Corrective Services
Correspondence, April-May 1992 correspondents include Sue Lindsay, Lorraine Mafi Williams, Mary Ralston, Barry Oakley, Diana Baker, Stephanie Haygarth, Barry Barclay, Frances Peters, Mary Ralston, Helen Morris, Noelene Thurston, Clayton Joyce, Hannah Ross, Laura Danckwerts

Older photographs, most from Mary Ralston

Negatives of photographs used in the book ‘Real Deadly’

Box 5

Photographs of Ginibi and family, photographs of Aboriginal art including by Bulagan (Lindsay Johnson)
Miscellaneous papers including invitations, Adelaide writer’s week correspondence and ephemera, news cuttings, ‘A Koori Perspective’, Artspace program, 1990-1991
Thesis dedicated to Ruby Langford ‘The Women Spirit Journey: a celebration of women’s spirituality’ by Pam Johnston (1990)

Box 6

Original typescript anthology ‘Koori Poetry Collection’, original poems by Ruby Langford Ginibi, Bulagan (Lindsay Johnson), Liz Flanagan, Pauline Mitchell, Janette Ardler and Rex Marshall. (Some published in ‘Real Deadly’); paper on Orality and Literature by Ruby Langford Ginibi; paper ‘Tracing my Roots’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi (1990); ‘The Bundjalung Lingo, Language of my People’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi (1991) includes listing of Bundjalung words and their English translation
Historical information relating to Sam Anderson. Anderson was the grandfather of Ruby Langford Ginibi and a champion cricketer in the Coraki district who once caught Don Bradman out for a duck. Papers include a chapter in ‘Casino: A Cricket History, 1861-1986’ by JV Hendley, and a poem by Keith Barker ‘Sam Anderson, All Time Great’; correspondence from Richmond River Historical Society, 1991; further correspondence with Bernard Whimpress, 1993
Articles and reviews related to Ruby Langford Ginibi in Farrago, HQ Magazine, Weekend Review
Workshop material and teaching resources including National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers Workshop, 1992
Papers on Indigenous subject matter submitted by Peta Link, Deborah West and Samantha Keogh, 1992
Research paper by Ruby Langford Ginibi written on 18 October 1992 outlining her views on education; edited article by Mudrooroo ‘A Literature of Aboriginality’; Stephanie Bloxsome’s editing notes of ‘My Bundjalung People’; paper ‘Beyond Terra Nullius - The Lie’ by Oodgeroo with poem ‘A Song of Hope’
History papers published and unpublished, 1990-1992
Reviews of Ginibi’s work in AWD newsletter, Modern Times, Australian Business Review, Radio SUV, Newcastle Herald, Sun Herald, Australian Women’s Weekly, Perth Sunday Times, 2ARM Armidale radio, Weekend Australian, Vogue, The Canberra Times, Northern Star and unpublished essay submitted in review of ‘Real Deadly’ by Sarah Fahie. Includes the review of ‘Real Deadly’ in the Weekend Australian Review (2-3 May 1992) by Mary Rose Liverani and Ruby’s manuscript and published right of reply. (For editor Barry Oakley’s reply to Ruby see ‘Correspondence, April-May 1992’ in Box 4), 1988-1992
Writing by Ruby Langford Ginibi including research for her books, articles, a manuscript review of Kim Scott’s True Country, reminisces of her children at Christmas, 1992, correspondence; ‘Bungawalbyn Flash’ a poem by Mudrooroo read and written for Ruby at the Post-Colonial Fictions Conference, Western Australia, 1992

Box 7

Book reviews, correspondence, articles by Ruby Langford Ginibi, essay by Hannah Ross on the Working Class in Literature, 1992
Miscellaneous papers including ephemera, articles and list of book orders, 1992
News cuttings, 1992-1993
News cuttings (not copied), 1992
News cuttings, including Australia Day, 1992
News cuttings, 1992
News cuttings, 1992

Box 8

Typescript of ‘Real Deadly’ with editorial markings (7 folders)

Extracts of ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’ read at Writers in the Park, Harold Park Hotel, 1988 (2 folders)

Gaol letters from Nobby used in ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’, 1972-1978 (2 folders)

Koori Women Mean Business Expo programs, correspondence, ephemera, 1992 (2 folders)

‘Real Deadly’ galley proofs, 1992 (1 folder)

Original photographs used in ‘Real Deadly’, 1992

Box 9

Don't take your love to town / Ruby Langford
3 scripts for a filmic Treatment of ‘Don't take your love to town’, a feature length screenplay by Helen Steel in collaboration with Helen Boyd from the novel by Ruby Langford Ginibi. 1993-1994
Photocopies of parts of printed text highlighting quotations which required permission to reproduce, 1988; laminated invitation from the Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke to Ruby Langford to attend the Lodge on International Women’s Day, 1988

‘My Bundjalung People’ typescript draft, manuscript. Annotations by editors Bernadette Foley and Sue Abbey, UQP, 1993
‘My Bundjalung People’ typescript draft with minor annotations; copy of response by Stephanie Haygarth with editorial suggestions; inserts and deletions, 1992
Photographs for use in ‘My Bundjalung People’ by Pam Johnston, 1990s, reproductions of photographs from 1930s

Box 10

‘My Bundjalung People’ typescript draft and copy returned for copying by AIATSIS, 1994
‘My Bundjalung People’ typescript draft
Sketches and paintings by Bulagan (Lindsay ’Nobby’ Johnson) and Ruby Langford Ginibi for use in ‘My Bundjalung People’; Glossary of Bundjalung lingo by Ruby Langford Ginibi

Box 11

‘Haunted by the Past: Nobby's Story’ draft manuscript, computer printout of draft manuscript, 1993
Background correspondence, manuscript and notes, news cuttings, material regarding deaths in custody, information relating to Ruby’s son Nobby who spent 17 years in gaol, 1987. 1993-1994

Correspondence marked as “Jail letters from ‘Some Mothers Sons’ to Ruby Langford Ginibi” from:
Gordon Campbell (Langford) also known as Lindsay Gordon, Bulagan and “Nobby”, November 1969 - November 1978
Stephen Cox, April - September 1973
Allan Barrett, June 1973 - March 1980
Stephen “Horse” Farrant, 1975-1976
Tony Drew, 1976
Terry Priest, 1971-1978
David Langford (also Campbell, Anderson), 1970-1977

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1969-1978 correspondents include Danny Chatfield, Cecil Young, Lester Ritchie, Jim Golden, Victor Bergan, Steve (Sparrow) Freeman, Doug and Pat Barrett, Mitch Hamson

Box 12

Family history papers including articles, clippings, poetry and notes relating to Sam Anderson and his relatives including Auntie Dora Williams; clippings and correspondence relating to Ruby’s daughter Pearl Anderson including a condolence letter from Prime Minister John Gorton, 1969 at the time of her accidental death; copies of correspondence with the Aborigines Welfare Board, and research documents relating to the Maher family, 1954-1959

Sections of ‘Haunted by the Past: Nobby’s Story’, correspondence, 1993-1994; ephemera including a list of works from “A new beginning” the first ever exhibition of art by Lindsay Albert Johnson (Balugan), Bondi Pavilion, original typescript opening speech by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1994

News cuttings relating to indigenous issues, 1993-1994

Papers relating to tribal and customary laws, health statistics, 1994

Art exhibitions: Hogarth Gallery & APMIRA exhibition poster ‘We Wait no More’ featuring photographs and textures by Juno Gemes, 1982; ‘Womenstories 2+2=5’ exhibition program featuring the works of Rox de Luca, Rita Georgiadis, C. Moore Hardy, Pam Johnston and Josephina Newton (signed verso by the artists); correspondence and clipping from Rita Georgiadis regarding Archibald portrait, 1994

Book reviews: ‘Real Deadly’ by Alan Shoemaker; ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’ essay by Tim Rowse and ‘Real Deadly’ by Sue Hosking, 1992

Correspondence, 1991-1995 Correspondents include Nancy Cato Norman, Caitlin McGrath, Judge Barbara Brook, Laura Dankwerts, Alan Tucker, Jean McMullin, Bernadette Foley and Sue Abbey (QUP), Gwen Markwell, Daniela Miksche, Hone Irving, Nita Green, includes a poem by Connie Bush

News cuttings 1976, 1992-1994

Legal papers including action vs Susan Hampton, publishing agreements, 1991-1993

Ephemera including writers’ festivals and book fairs invitations and programs, book launches, funeral order of service, Debutante Ball program and Certificate of Appreciation, 1988-1994

Festival papers and research ‘Write for Survival’, 1993 at Minjerriba Writers Conference; ‘The Modern-Day Matriarch’, 1994 (see Box 17 for audio cassette for recording of this)

Correspondence with State Library regarding presentation of papers, 1991

Box 13

Correspondence, 1993-1994 correspondents include Laura Stone regarding Bundjalung National Park, Jackie Huggins, Helen Jiggins, Bernadette Foley, Penelope Nelson, Wendy Mead, Jenny Oldershaw, Trevor Landers, Anna Cole, Stephen Wainwright, Chris Lumbers, Tom Thompson, Lizz Murphy (including page proofs for ‘She’s a Train and She’s Dangerous: Women Alone in the 1990s’), Ruth Link, Felicity Shea, Janice Dennis, Cynthia Yasbincek, Kerrie Tim, Juno Gemes

Correspondence 2, 1993 correspondents include Cleveland Street High School, Liz Flanagan, Neil James, Caroline Macdonald, Jane Wheatley, Margaret King, Anne Brookman, Chris Chevalier, Robin Hundt (includes transcript of interview August 1992), Francis Farrier, Busby High School, Chiefy Pie, Joseph Pugliese, Kelly Stephens, Juno Gemes, Invitation to SMH Young Writer of the Year, 1993, Margaret Kelly

News cuttings, 1990-1994

Published and unpublished writing by Ruby Langford Ginibi and others. Unpublished work includes: “Come Out” or “Allwrite”, 1993; Carnivale review, 1993; research paper on Mabel Yuke and Sam Anderson, 1992; “Wollumbin” by Norman Keats; Tribal Legends; Foreign Investment, 1993; Thyroid surgery; Bogal Land Council; recollection of a story from 1988 when Kevin Gilbert was awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Human Rights Award for Literature for his anthology of Aboriginal poetry, Inside Black Australia, which he felt he could not accept while his people were denied human rights in their own country, 1993 (Ginibi won the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission human rights award for literature for 1988 for ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’); research papers on Cherbourg Barambah Mission, 1992; Bundjalung Language (Lingo), 1992; The White Australia Policy; 1993, manuscript Mabo, 13 June 1993 – published in Koori Mail, 1993; ‘Language, Place and Self in Don’t Take Your Love to Town and WildCard’ essay by Toni Leemen; MA Thesis ‘Gender, Geography and Resistance’ by Joan Hayes, 1993; tutorial paper on Land Rights written by Wayne Gibson, 1992. Published works ‘Paperbark: a collection of Black Australian Writings’ introductory pages only, 1990; ‘The Naked Pomegranate’ Issue No. 1 includes ‘Emotions’ poem by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1993; ‘White Man Approval’ poem by Lisa Bellear, published in Refractory Girl, 1991, includes article on Bellear, 1992

Miscellaneous papers including Yothu Yindi concert program celebrating the International Year of the World’s Indigenous People featuring Archie Roach and Friends, Sydney Opera House, 11 September 1993, ATSIC News featuring Yothu Yindi, 1992, Yuroke Students newsletter, April 1992

Box 14

New South Wales State Literary Awards, correspondence, meeting agenda, notes, annotated list of nominations, award ceremony program, 1993

Master’s Thesis: ‘Running Our race: Aboriginal and American Indian’s Women’s Autobiography’ by Allison Lee

Correspondence, 1989-1992 correspondents include Chiefy Pie, NAIDOC organising committee, Casino, Matthew Schulz, Margaret Fletcher, Diana Barker, Pearl Kelly, Michelle Dickson, Carole Ferrier, Dulcie Meddows, Ken Gelder, Christine Toovey, Polly Clarke, Peg McColl, Rosemary Sorensen, Cedric Teague, Emma Collins

Correspondence, 1993 correspondents include Tom Thompson, Christina Thompson, Anne Brookman, Jackie Huggins, Kaz Lopeman, Mary Lambert., Norman Leslie, Kathy Trees, Carole Ferrier, Michelle Tuahine, Katherine Mitchell, Sue Abbey, Cliff Watego, Sarah Fahie, Rita Georgiadis, Frances Kelly, Kelly Stephens, Darlaine Dudoit, Tony Duke, Heather Sladdin

English Teachers’ Association of NSW Annual Conference program, 1991; Arts Reach Number 13, May 1991; Koorie Women Mean Business Conference report, 1992; invitations

Newspaper cuttings relating to the MABO case/decision, 1993-1994

Newspaper cuttings relating to Indigenous issues/history, 1993-1994

Box 15

Copies of Book reviews, 1988-1993

Published and unpublished writing by Ruby Langford Ginibi and others: Exhibition launch speech for Pam Johnston’s ‘Spirituality & Mother Earth Woman Stories, 1993; a tribute to Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Tribe (published in Australian Women’s Book Review, 1994; further typescript tributes to Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1993; ‘Haunted by the Past – Nobby’s Story’ extract submitted to Meanjin, 1993-1994; manuscript tribute to Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1993; speech at launch of the Pitjaranda Trust, 1993; article and two poems published in Collage: ‘The true Aboriginal history from a Koori perspective’, ‘An answer to Dorothea McKellar’s My Country’, and ‘Singing the Land’, 1991 (includes two published artworks of Balugan); essay by Suzanna Biviano ‘Removal of Aboriginal Children’, 1992; transcript and covering letter ‘It’s Our Turn: An Interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi’, Caitlin McGrath and Philippa Sawyer, 1993-1994; transcript ‘Interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi’ with Anne Deveson, 1994

Invitations and programs for writers’ festivals Warana, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Writers Conference, Feminist Book Fair Inc., Spring Writing, Come Out 93, 1993

Correspondence 1989-1993 correspondents include Balugan, Ted Pickering MLC, Rosemary Creswell, Rosemary Rule, Kerry Kramer, Christina Thompson, Tom Thompson, Kelly Stephens, Jenny Lee, Rita Georgiadis, Pauline Mitchell, Caitlin McGrath, Bernadette Foley, Susan Hawthorn and Renate Klein, Beth Yahp, Dominic O’Grady, Greg Clarke, Graham Rossiter, Gerry Turcotte, Heather Sladdin, Colin Small, Shantee Follmer, Sue Abbey, Mark St Leon, Ross Coulthart, David Graham (includes photograph of Ruby at Young Writer of the Year, 1993), Janine Little

Personal items kept by Ruby Langford Ginibi including card and envelope from Lindsay Johnson, 1993, letter from Ronald Nicholas to Aileen; drawings for Nanny from Lee and Nirita, 1993; tickets and flyers for Mabo Mambo, Enmore Theatre, 1993; list of appointments, 1993; copy of letter from Ruby to Dr Neal Blewett, Minister for Health, 1989; correspondence from Michael Mansell, Aboriginal Provisional Government including cloth patch; ephemera relating to Lindsay Johnson exhibited art work at Sydney Royal Easter Show, 1991; list of names and addresses at book launch, 1988; edition of ‘Liverpool Champion’ featuring mosaic of Pam Johnston, 1993

Miscellaneous papers including invitations to exhibitions, birthday parties, book launches, Christmas Parties, fundraisers, conferences, 1991-1993; ‘Wollumbin’ by NC Keats dustjacket; DSS calendar used by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1993-1994; Bran Nue Dae program and article, 1991; 35mm slide of Ruby Langford Ginibi and Alma Skinner at Mark Ella Hostel

Box 16

Correspondence 1989, 1991-1994 correspondents include Pam Johnston, Bruce Pascoe, Sister Dominique, George Papaellinas, Jackie Huggins, Heather Sladdin, Liz Flanagan, Wendy Fuller, David Brooks, Lesley Fogarty, Ruth Link, Michael Mansell, Margaret Burke, Rose Creswell, Lizz Murphy

Newspaper cuttings relating to Indigenous issues/history, 1993-1994

Correspondence, 1993-1994 correspondents include Susan Mitchell, Sue Abbey, Rhoda Roberts, Paul Brunton, Heather Sladdin, Lesley Bangama Fogarty, Naomi Mayers, Greg Wilson, Shantee Follmer, Janine Little, Daniela Miksche, Justine Bennett, Carole Ferrier, Rosemary Rule, Bronwyn Thompson, Adrian Peniston-Bird, Sandra Rigby, Rosanne Turner

Invitations, conference programs to writer’s festivals, book launches, exhibitions, lectures, 1993-1994

Draw for the NSW Annual Aboriginal Rugby League Carnival, Guilford, Sydney, 1991; Sun-Herald Living Country, a Map of Australia, with 16 cards describing places of significance to Aboriginal Australians, insert for the Sun-Herald, May 2, 1993 (partially completed); questionnaire completed by Ruby Langford Ginibi for Cleveland Street High School

Box 17

Correspondence, 1985-1994 includes correspondence in envelope marked “Not using this stuff” which includes letters received from John Akister (while Minister for Corrective Services) 12 May 1987, Daniel Greagg, Michael Yabsley (while Minister for Corrective Services) 8 August 1990, Attorney-General’s Department Support Group Resources 3 July 1995, Peter Phelan 21 July 1995, copy of letter from Ruby Langford Ginibi to Michael Yabsley 26 July 1990. Other correspondents include Philip Morrissey, Shellie, Langford, Stephen Farrant, Kerrie Tim, Sue Abbey, Pam Johnston, Dr Wenche Ommundsen, Carol Bissett, Caitlin McGrath, Charise Schwalger

Correspondence, 1995-1996 includes references in support of a proposed education project developed by Ruby Langford Ginibi and Pauline Mitchell from academics, journalists and others including Janine Little, Kath Duncan, Jane Sloan, Irina Dunn, Maralyn Parker, Elizabeth Evatt, Irina Dunn and Anne Deveson; Book review of ‘Bush Toys’; Jan Bennett, Vaska Dervisovski, Jessica Davis, John Barnes of La Trobe University, National Museum of Australia, manuscript letters to Koori Mail, The Australian magazine

Correspondence, 1997-March 1998 including manuscript and typescript letter to Nick Greiner, Chairman of Ausflag regarding a new flag design; Enough is Enough Anti-Violence Movement material, correspondence from Linda Westphalen, Debra Adelaide, UWS Macarthur, Chris Martin, Penny van Toorn including Volume 1 of ‘Black on Black: Aboriginal Studies Journal’, 1998

Correspondence, March 1998-August 1998 correspondents include Kerry Reed-Gilbert, letters of congratulations following the awarding of an honorary Doctor of Letters degree, manuscript letter to Koori Mail, 1998, James Wilson-Miller, Ruby Langford Ginibi Curriculum Vitae, La Trobe University (includes photographs), Suvendrini Perera, Tony Barta, Federation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages material including newsletters 2-5 and 7-9; Macquarie University, Goongullia Aboriginal Education Centre, Powerhouse Museum, Australia Council and NSW Writers’ Centre

‘Letters and Finished Works’, 1989, 1993-1996 correspondents include Irina Dunn, Julie Coxall, Ray Martin (A Current Affair), copy of letter from Ruby Langford Ginibi to the Gandangarra Land Council, 1995, John Barnes, National Museum of Australia, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Maureen Casey, copy of a letter read in court, Gosford, 1989, Kerry Sullivan, Viola Bassett, Mary Ralston, June McMullin, Nita Green, Danielle Brown, Merle Puckeridge, Graham Reilly, Diana Ward, Gerry Turcotte, Robert Edwards, National Museum of Australia, HarperCollins Publishers

Box 18

Records of Involvements, ‘Fan Mail’ 1993-1995 correspondents include Wendy Mead, Ross Clark, Peg and Ray Hannan, Hone (The Hobo) Irving, Nita Green, Christina Perrett, University of Wollongong, Lydia Miller, Australia Council for the Arts, Anne Summers, Juno Gemes, Sophie Stevenson, Clare Allan-Kamil and Carole Ferrier. Also includes correspondence related to Warana Writers’ Week September 1993 and Melbourne Writers’ Festival, Native Title Indigenous Rights Conference, 1994

Records of Involvements, ‘Fan Mail’ 1994-1995 correspondents include Viola Bassett, Carmel Berry, Michelle Dowling, Dinah Johnson, Gina Lennox, Daniela Miksche, Helen Jiggins, Marie Newman, Irina Dunn, Jan Bennett, Marcus Einfeld, Rose Ellis, Judith Saunders, Catherine Brennan, David Graham and Patricia Rocke

Royalty Receipts, Contract with UQP, Young Writer of Year Story ( judged by Ruby Langford Ginibi), 1987-1994 correspondents include Australia Council (relating to grants, and advising of nomination for inaugural Red Ochre Award), Ministry for the Arts thanking Ruby Langford Ginibi for serving on judging committee for 1993 NSW State Literary Awards

Correspondence, 1994 correspondents include Caitlin McGrath, John Barnes including copy of La Trobe Bulletin, Daniela Miksche, Anne Summers, Penguin Books, Claudia Stummer, Margaret Bail, Graham Reilly

Correspondence, 1995 correspondents include Australia Council of the Arts, Vanessa Liell, Tim English, Elizabeth Guy, Iain Gardner, Adeola James, Australian Society of Authors, David Syme & Co, Diana Ward, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, University of Wollongong

Correspondence, 1996 correspondents include Isa Jones, Jessica Metham and Mary Ann Hughes

Copies of Essays by Toni Leemen, Allison Lee, Joan Hayes, Elizabeth Guy; a ‘dedication to Uncle Dave from your niece Kylie and sister Pauline’; article by Ruby Langford Ginibi ‘Aboriginal Traditional and Customary Laws’, for Law, Text, Culture, 1993-1995 includes 1 x 3.5 in. floppy disk (DC 57/33)

Box 19

Correspondence, 1994-1997 correspondents include Marie-Luise Stunkel, Peggy van Toorn, Victorian Trades Hall Council, Vaska Derivsovski, Rose Creswell, Amanda Tunstall, Sue Abbey, Tom Thompson, HarperCollins Publishers, Long Bay History Project, National Museum of Australia, Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, Isa Jones, Judi George, Debra Adelaide, Macquarie University, Ausflag, John Barnes, Ruth Starke, Tracy Kepper, Diane Jacobus, Gerry Turcotte, Sue Hodge, Manly Council, Nancy Burridge, Chris Martin, Pam Johnston, David Whitrow on behalf of Senator Warwick Parer, Women for Wik, Phillippa Wearne, copy of letter sent to Cheryl Kernot, Mayor of Waverley, Sophie Stevenson

Correspondence, 1994-1998 correspondents include Charise Schwalger, Wendy Mead, University of Queensland Press, UTS Students Association, The Somerset Celebration of Literature, University of New England, Randwick Family Support Service, South Sydney Community Aid, English Teachers’ Association of NSW, Carol Ridgeway-Bissett, Euraba Education Centre, invitation to launch of ‘My Bundjalung People’ at Warana Writers’ Week, Gadigal Aboriginal Corporation, Sally Gray & Associates, Film Australia, reference for David Sampson

Annotated copy of ‘Journeys through the Inner City’, edited by Gina Lennox, 1995

‘Fan Mail’ 1995-1998 correspondents include copy of letters from Ruby Langford Ginibi, invitation to the wedding of Janine Little and Mudrooroo, John Barnes, Film Australia, Channel Seven Sydney, Tony Barta, Allen & Unwin, University of Technology Sydney, Janine Little Nyoongah, Louis Braille Books, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Nicola Apps, Suvendrini Perera, Caroline Harris, Robyn Ferguson, Christine Watson, also includes letter 17 March 1998 from La Trobe University advising of intention to confer degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) in recognition of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s major contributions to contemporary Australian literature. Includes ‘Ginibi on Scientific Racism’ 1 x 3.5 in. floppy disk (DC 57/34); medical report (restricted)

Box 20

‘Fan Mail’ and involvements, 1994-1999 correspondents include Rita Georgiadis, Film Australia, Penny van Troon, Pam Johnston, Linda Westphalen, Helen Jiggins, Christine Watson, Allen & Unwin including clips and articles pertaining to the Parramatta Pirates Rugby League team, Elizabeth Guy (including ‘New Literatures Review, Number 31, 1996), and various congratulatory correspondence on conferral of honorary Doctor of Letters degree

Finished work, correspondence, 1995-1996 correspondents include NSW Writers’ Centre, Nepean High School, Robyn Anton, Wendy Notley, Andrew Rennie, Elizabeth Guy, and Jacaranda Wiley, ‘Numero Uno’ - work on Sam Anderson

Correspondence, 1995-1996 correspondents include Helen Boyd, Gary Turcotte, Don McMillen, Mitchell High School, Rita Georgiadis, Blanca Fullana (Includes transcript of interview Fullana with Ruby Langford Ginibi), Herofax for Cathy Freeman from Ruby Langford Ginibi, history lecture notes, printed extracts from ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’

Business and ‘Fan Mail’ 1996-1998 correspondents include Daniela Miksche, Roy C. Boland, lain Topliss, Friends of Tranby, John Walsh, Suvendrini Perera, birthday and Christmas cards from family and friends

‘Fan mail’ and letters of involvement, 1997-1998 in Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR), correspondents include Sally Gray & Associates, Penguin Australia, Parramatta City Council, ANTaR, Anna Robinson, Marie McInnes, Bernard Cannon, Faithe Duberchin, Australian Society of Authors, Nan Mackay, ABC Radio, Suvendrini Perera, Anita Hess of Gadigal Aboriginal Corporation, Allen & Unwin, Southern Cross University, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Pam Johnston, Susan Skelly, Melissa Smith, Pip Wearne

Deaths in Custody Reports, 1992 includes: ‘An extract from The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, final report. Chapter 38, The process of reconciliation’ (with annotations); Response to the Recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody prepared by ATSIC; related material

Graduation ceremony ephemera, including the conferring of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) on Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1 May 1998, La Trobe University

Box 21

Spring Writing Festival 12-13 September 1998 and Masterclasses of Indigenous Writing 6-10 September 1998 including related correspondence and photographs; letter from Dr Craig Powell enclosing poem on Aboriginal issues for comment; text of Ruby Langford Ginibi speech at Smoking Ceremony; conference ephemera

Miscellaneous papers including Australia Council for the Arts, ATSIAC Literature Committee Minutes, 8th meeting; Second Reading Speech Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Bill, 1989; material for Conference and Expo Koori Women Mean Business, 1992; journal articles by Henry Reynolds 1974, 1989, Penny van Toorn, 1990 and Tim Rowse, 1993

‘Pauline Mitchell’ annotation reads ‘My Daughter Pauline Mitchell Regional Aboriginal Liaison Office for 10 years’. Includes information about the Regional Aboriginal Community Liaison Office, courses offered, guidelines for teachers, various booklets

Material relating to Petitions for Land in Bundjalung Country includes lists, News cuttings, ephemera and other material, 1993-1995

Pam Johnston material Includes an exhibition booklet ‘Transformation (death)’ by Pam Johnston. Annotation reads: ‘my adopted Daughter Pam Johnston Ph.D. exhibition 1997’; ‘Free Spirit’ booklet of stories from Koori Women in Mulawa Detention Centre where Pam Johnston taught Art, 1989-1997

‘Basics of editing, Workshop writing information and research’

Teaching resources including history papers and relevant material for H.S.C. Studies for Charlie Bazouni at Granville High. Includes various journals and booklets (annotated); news cuttings; article ‘Three Million Aboriginal People Inhabited Australia Before Settlement’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi (1994); Summary: Aboriginal Education in New South Wales. A History by Pauline Mitchell, 1990-1996

Excerpts from Haunted Past to send for permissions; correspondence between Helen Boyd and Rose Creswell, 1993; various iterations of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Curriculum Vitae; conference program ‘Urban Koori Identities’; ‘Issues of race and Gender in Ruby Langford’s Don’t take your Love to Town’ from Reading Aboriginal women's autobiography / Anne Brewster Melbourne : Sydney University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1996 (Introduction and Chapter 2)

Box 22

Greeting cards including Get Well cards, 1992; Mother’s Day cards (including a lock of Aileen’s hair), 1995 Christmas cards

Box 23

Diaries and Notebooks

Journal, 12 December 1993-14 January 1996 includes some day-to-day diary entries, but mainly documents travel to various destinations including New Zealand, Melbourne, through Western New South Wales, Brisbane and the New South Wales North Coast

Record of Workbook, 1993-1995 includes entries concerning professional engagements, radio interviews, lectures, poetry readings, meetings, book launches, documentary films and workshops, records fellowships/grants received, requests for information, negotiations with publishers, professional letters sent, and financial and taxation matters. Also includes some personal entries

Aboriginal Education Diary, 1995 entry in ‘Notes’ section reads ‘This Book has names & dates for talks and lectures for 1995. Ruby Langford Ginibi’ includes entries regarding engagements relating to education and some general diary entries

Notebook - Ginibi’s Book, 1993 Holidays includes rough notes, statistics re black deaths in custody, and lists of inserts regarding ‘Haunted Past’

Working Notes

Senator Heron’s article regarding assimilation policies and reply by Barbara Nicholson; Governor General Sir William Deane’s Statistics on Aboriginal Health, 1997; Articles: ‘Speaking for Country’ an Essay for The Theosophical Society of Sydney by Sean Flood, Public Defender, 14th November 1997. Dedicated to Nugget Coombs on the occasion of his State Funeral; ‘Racial suicide: The Re-Licensing of Racism in Australia 1997’ by Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese. Annotated copy of ‘Mabo: A Symbol of Sharing: The High Court Judgment Examined. Commentary on Native Title Act 1993 (Commonwealth) and a Section for Students and Teachers by Sean Flood.; material for “possible inclusion” in ‘Haunted by The Past: Nobby’s story’; exhibition catalogue: Rea ‘Ripped into Pieces’

Loose notes, 1993-1997 including lists of tasks, structure for ‘Ruby’s Globalisation Paper’, ‘Words & Meanings’, ephemera, media releases and other information relating to workshops, courses, literacy programs and the Redfern Aboriginal Community, printed work relating to Daniel Yock, 1994

Literary Manuscripts

‘Haunted Past: Nobby’s Story’ drafts of finished works ready for final edits, typescript preliminary materials with manuscript additions, corrections and annotations (some in editor's hand), and a folder of supplementary material associated with this iteration including correspondence between Ruby Langford Ginibi, Judge Peter Phelan and the Attorney General’s Department, 1995

Box 24

‘Haunted by the Past: Nobby’s Story’ Finished work with “logic” pages. Typescript with manuscript annotations. and some manuscript insert pages

‘Haunted by the Past: Nobby’s Story’ Allen & Unwin, typescript (revised) includes repeat pages pp 59-67 + 221-225

Box 24A

‘Haunted by the Past: Nobby’s Story’ early edited draft, two revised drafts proofed by Allen & Unwin, October 1997; diskette


Box 25

Short Stories, lectures, speeches and articles, 1992-1994

Annotated typescripts: ‘My Names’, ‘Tracing My Roots’ and ‘Koori Dubay’s’; ‘Aboriginal Debutante Ball, Round House, New South Wales University, 10 July 1992’ two versions: manuscript and annotated typescript; ‘Up and at ‘em: My mob’ manuscript, 1992; ‘Invited to receive the senior Debutantes at Coonabarabran for the Year of the World’s indigenous people, 12 March 1993’; annotated typescript; ‘My Past Catchin’ up with me’, November 1993, typescript; Writing Conference at Warilda Conference Centre, Wooloowin, September 1993, edited and annotated typescript; ‘Speech for Oodgeroo Noonuccal’ 18 September 93, typescript; ’Tapu-te-Ranga-Marai’, Wellington, New Zealand, annotated typescript; ‘Aboriginal Tradition and Customary Laws’, June 1994, typescript - annotation reads: ‘Published in a book (Law Text & Culture) Vol 1. 1994, University of Wollongong’; ‘The Land they called Terra Australis’ manuscript, pencil; ‘Politics that affect my mob’ edited typescript; ‘6th international feminist book fair’, two versions of edited typescripts, 1994; ‘My Book Launch at Warana Writers Festival’ 1994, several versions, edited typescripts; ‘Family’ for Cheryl Hingley, Landsdowne Press, two versions of typescript edited by Mudrooroo, 13 October 94; ‘Olgas Surprise Party for me (My Past Catchin’ up with me)’ edited typescript, 1994

Short Stories, Lectures, Speeches and Articles, 1995-1996

‘Langwij comes to school’, book launch speech edited transcript including a copy of the edition, 1995; ‘History Paper’ several versions; edited, illustrated typescript; ‘A Timeline of Aboriginal Occupation of Australia’ illustrated, annotated; ‘Revolution of Aboriginal Women’s Writing’, 2 February 1996 - a list of authors from Margaret Tucker in 1977 (If Everyone Cared) to Doris Pilkington (Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence) in 1996; ‘The Missionaries and the effects on Aboriginal people of Australia’ manuscript, 1995; ‘Sing no sad songs for me’ manuscript, 1996; ‘Haunted by the Past: Nobby’s Story & Others’ manuscript; ‘Canonisation Paper’ typescript, 1996; ‘The Pet That Bit’, typescript, 1996; ‘Tribute to Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Tribe’, edited typescript, 27 January 1996; ‘All Us Mob’ written at Warana, typescript, April 1996; ‘The wedding’, edited typescript, 18 May 1996; ‘Mission Memories’, manuscript and typescript (incomplete), August 1996

Short Stories, Lectures, Speeches and Articles, 1996-1997

‘Goin’ Home to Bundjalung Country, on Holidays That Never Were’, several versions, edited typescript, April 1995- August 1996; ‘In Support of the Bundjalung People: Loss of Sacred Trees’, two versions manuscript and edited typescript; ‘Reconciliation’, manuscript, 1997; ’To the tribunal’, manuscript, 25 April 1997; ‘Speech for the launch of Pam Johnston’s Doctorate Exhibition of Art’ manuscript, 16 August1997; ‘Voicing the Land’, two versions: manuscript and edited typescript, 1997; ‘Auntie Pauline Hanson: The Redhead is in Bed with the Red Necks’ manuscript

Short Stories, Lectures, Speeches and Articles, 1991-1998

‘My Opinion about the Festival of the Dreaming, Dreaming and Song Lines’ on the anniversary of Pearl’s funeral, 24 December 1998; ‘Republic Lecture’ manuscript; manuscript response to Tim Rowse review of ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’; ‘The City (Big Smoke)’ written for Artspace; ‘Introduction for Sri Lankan University Students’ manuscript, 1 August 1998’; ‘Smoke Cradle’ Manuscript, 27 July 1998; manuscript speech for Writers Festival, Rozelle, 12-13 September 1998; Nobby’s Painting ‘Jalum Dreaming’ manuscript, 1998; ‘Dear Mum’ manuscript, 1 October 1998’; ‘Dear Dad’, manuscript; "Nobby’s Story" published excerpt; ‘Legends of Victoria (Brambuk) in the Grampians. Irambuk Budja Budja Gariwerd’, ‘Fear of Frogs’ manuscript; ‘The old Richmond River’ manuscript; ‘The Unknown Soldier’, manuscript; typescript ‘Essay on Aboriginality’, 1993; ‘The Baygal’ manuscript; ‘Goin’ Home’ manuscript, 29 April1995; Cutting the Cord , typescript; insert pages, possibly from Haunted Past; speech for James Golden, typescript, 4 March 1991; notes for Lindsay Johnson’s first art exhibition; untitled stories and fragments. Also includes associated papers, ‘Things to do’ Lists, ‘Logic Page for Work’

Finished work, 1990-1995

Annotated typescripts: ‘Forum on Women and the Republic’ paper read at Parliament House with Amanda Vanstone and Franca Arena, 1995; ‘Aboriginal History/Culture: A Lecture’ several versions, 1990, 1995; ‘Black Woman’ typescript poem, 1995, with edited and annotated poem ‘Terra Nullius’, 1994 attached; ‘The Judges Letter’ annotation reads: ‘this paraphrase of the judge’s letter and Ruby’s replies is to be inserted into the “Art” chapter, in place of the quoted letter’, typescript. (See also Box 23 for Judge’s original reply); copy of Aborigines Welfare Board ‘Application for Exemption from Provision of Aborigines Protection Act and Regulations thereunder’ annotation ”Citizens Rights - we called it a dog licence!”; untitled paper, possibly published in ‘The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History’, Bain Attwood, 1998, two versions manuscript and typescript; ‘Thomas Hinnett, First Aboriginal Stockman of Bunawalbu Homestead, 1840s’ (Bonalbo) two edited, typescript versions; ‘Lecture Papers’: Papers used for lectures at Macquarie University, 1998 including autobiography, 1994, photocopy typescript; ‘Other People’s Stories, other people’s voices’, typescript with manuscript annotations and note from Nancy Burridge, 1998; ‘Terra Nullius’, typescript, 1995; ‘Pauline Hanson is in bed with the Rednecks’ typescript, 4 June 1998 and associated papers; ‘My Scientific Racism Paper’ includes extensive annotations in margin by John Barnes, La Trobe University, and associated papers; ‘Commemoration/ Thomas Hinnett’ edited typescript; ‘Voicing the Land’ paper given at ASAL Conference, University of New England, Armidale, 1997; typescript; ‘My Mob, My Self - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Biography/Autobiography’; unpublished, annotated typescript notes for lecture on 27 January 96 at State Library with Herb Walton and Keith Saunders

Complete and incomplete work including transcripts of interviews, 1993-1998

Several separate pieces including typescript ‘excerpts Yarmbella, April 1998’; handwritten texts on Scientific Racism, Charles Darwin; an unpublished open letter to John Howard regarding Native Title; ‘Life’ typescript poem by Roberta Sykes; manuscript version of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s poem ‘I am every Black Woman…’; manuscript poem by Kylie Mitchell ‘Gone’ (for Pearl); manuscript poem by Pauline Mitchell ‘Hey Billy’ (for William); Ruby Langford Ginibi in conversation with Blanca Fullana (Exchange student from the Departmento de Filologia Anglesa, Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, studying in the School of English, La Trobe University), published, along with "Nobby’s Story" [Abridged] in Australian Conversations No. 1 La Trobe University 1998, includes cover letter from John Barnes, La Trobe University; transcript of Interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi by Allison Lee, 31 August 1993, Copy of Lee’s Thesis ‘Running our Race: Aboriginal and American Indian’s Women’s Autobiography’

Box 26

Book reading episodes and transcripts of interviews, 1994-1998

Ruby Langford Ginibi in conversation with Elizabeth Guy, letter from Elizabeth Guy; interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi, interviewed by Ann Deveson for ‘Coming of Age’ 8 April 1994; ‘Don’t Take Your Love to Town’ book reading for broadcast on ABC, May 1998

Collected Theses and Essays

‘Fictions of White Australia: Identity, Land and Community in Contemporary Australian Women’s Life Narratives’ submitted by Philippa Sawyer in total fulfilment of the requirements of MA degree, School of English, La Trobe University, June 1996

‘From Talk to Text. The Place of Aboriginal Women’s Narratives in Australia’s Literary Tradition: Questions of Genre, Authenticity, Politics and Textuality’ submitted by Noeline Brasche in partial fulfilment of requirements for MA degree, Department of English, Macquarie University, December 1995

‘Australia as a Home Country in Native and White Literature’. MA thesis by Sandra Lange submitted to the Faculty of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences, Technical University of Braunschweig

‘Life-Stories and Their Echoes: Self-Representation and Plural Identities in Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies’ by Caitlin McGrath

Essays: ‘Regarding Real Deadly’, by Sarah Fahie, 1993; ‘Discuss the politics of Aboriginal writing’, by Derek Mortimer, submitted to the School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, 1997; Investigation Report, by Tammy Williams, Sociology 181; ‘Towards Reconciliation: The Concept of Resistance in Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Autobiography’, by Shahizah Ismail; ‘The rememory of the past in Sally Morgan’s My Place: The grassroot efforts of re-discovering human agency towards reconciliation’ by Raihanah Moyd Mydin; ‘Wordless Indigenous Peoples in “Remembering Babylon” by Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan; ‘The Struggle for Territory’ by Elizabeth Guy. Includes letter from Guy to Ruby Langford Ginibi; ‘Remediating Silence: Aboriginal Writing Prior to 1964’ by Penny van Toorn, delivered at the Writing Postcolonial Literary History Conference, Deakin University, 12-14 July 1995; ‘Consider the Spiritual Dimension and its Relation to the Social Dimension in Ruby Langford’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town’ by Nicola Apps, letter from Apps attached, 20 October 1998

Printed Material

Journals and magazines, most containing articles by or about Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1994-1998

Boxes 27-30

News cuttings, annotated by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1993-1998

Box 31

Letters received from Linda Westphalen regarding enclosed photocopies; photocopy of ‘Kyogle, New South Wales, 1839-1956’ (1956) by Eve Keane; photocopy of ‘Casino: From Crossing Place to Municipality 1840-1980’ (1980) by Maurice Ryan; photocopy of ‘The Myall Creek Massacre and its Significance in the Controversy over the Aborigines during Australia’s Early Squatting Period’ by Brian W. Harrison (BA thesis, UNE, November 1966)

Letter received from Linda Westphalen regarding enclosed photocopies: Second draft of Chapter 5 of her thesis; Several journal articles by Malcolm Calley and BJ Ryan from Oceania, 1955-1963; NSW Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs Occasional Paper no. 4 relating to archival material about Aboriginal reserves in NSW; Photocopy of ‘Learning from the Past’ (1994) and excerpt from ‘Education in Lismore: A Century and a Quarter of Progress’ (1980) by Ray Bass

News cuttings, including reviews, mainly regarding Aboriginal culture and current affairs, with Mother’s Day card received from Ruby Langford Ginibi’s children; ‘Ode to Reconciliation’, manuscript, 8 November 2003; letter received from Campbelltown City Council, 30 January 2004, regarding her nomination for Campbelltown City Australia Day Award

Further news cuttings and printed material, 1997-2001; notes regarding Makarrata (Treaty), 1998, and Peter Yu’s paper regarding Treaty in Walking Together, Special Edition, November 1998; and photocopies relating to Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, 1988-98
Printed material regarding Reconciliation; photocopies of Ruby Langford Ginibi book reviews, personal notices, speaking engagements, and issue of Djadi-Dugarang, Vol. 5, no. 8, May 2004; Copy of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s ‘History Paper’, 12 April 2005, with 1 x 3.5 in. floppy disk (DC 57/35); copy of ‘Werlu Wana: Be Your Self’ by Bertha Kapeen, nee Bolt

Box 32

News cuttings Sydney Olympics, 2000 including Cathy Freeman

News cuttings Aboriginal current affairs including Stolen Generation, Mandatory sentencing, April 2000

News cuttings Aboriginal current affairs including Rabbit Proof Fence, Anthony Mundine and Shakaya, 2002

News cuttings Aboriginal current affairs including Anthony Mundine, Lindau Burney, Aden Ridgeway, Pauline Hanson, 2003

Box 33

Correspondence from Linda Westphalen, 13 June 2001, Michael Jacklin, 3 May 2004, regarding enclosed two draft chapters of his thesis on Aboriginal writing; and copy of Women Down the Valley (1985); annotated photocopy of Chapters 1-5, 14 of ‘An Introduction to the Bundjalung Language and its Dialects’, 1985 (Armidale Papers no. 8) by Margaret C. Sharpe et al; ‘Study of Street Offences by Aborigines’, Anti-Discrimination Board, 1982, annotated by Ruby Langford Ginibi; quote from ‘The Redfern Speech’ by Paul Keating, Prime Minister, 1992; ‘Records of Promotion and Work Book’, exercise book recording appointments and speaking engagements, 1988-1993

Issue of ‘Djadi-Dugarang: The Newsletter of the Indigenous Social Justice Association’, Vol. 5 issue 7, August 2004, with news cuttings (2), 2003-04, draft applications for literary grants mainly to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council and NSW Writers’ Fellowship; Christmas card from Michael Jacklin, 2002, with enclosed transcript of interview he conducted with Penny van Toorn, 7 November 2002; draft of foreword for ‘Metaphoric Landscapes: Writing the Rainbow Region’ by Janie Conway Herron, 2003; book launch ‘Gorn Shearin’ by Harold Hunt from Bigga; short writings by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1994-20; correspondence and article by Penny van Toorn ‘Blood Relatives and Government Relations: Early Writings by Aboriginal Children and their families’

‘Haunted by the Past’ material including draft excerpts from Ruby Langford Ginibi’s and computer typescript of ‘Reconciliation’, 23 December 2003; papers mainly regarding the artwork of Ruby’s son, Lindsay Johnson (Nobby), including colour photographs of his work, with letter received from Nobby, 1993 and Mother's Day card, 1992; copy of speech by Candida Baker at State Library of NSW National Biography Award, 2000

Correspondence including letters of support for Ruby Langford Ginibi’s nomination for the Red Ochre Award from Anita Heiss and Jack Beetson; letter received from Suvendrini Perera; papers regarding ‘The Older Women’s Network’, 2004; news cuttings, 1994, 2000-01; papers relating to Friends Disability Debutante Ball, 23 May 2003, with enclosed certificate received; incomplete exhibition catalogue of +’Art of the Tiwi’ from the National Gallery of Victoria; incomplete manuscript and typescript writing by Ruby Langford Ginibi

Box 34

Transcript of interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi by Lola Sharp, 14 August 2001, for The Older Women’s Network Project ‘In her Own Voice’, with 1 x audio cassette of interview, and edited versions of transcript; transcripts of interviews with Ruby Langford Ginibi and Dr Pam Johnston by Voice of America for program, ‘Australia’s Aboriginal People’, 22 May 2001, with 2 x audio cassettes of interviews; news cuttings, speech notes and letter received from John Barnes, La Trobe, University, 8 October 1996

Papers relating to Reconciliation, including annotated copies of publications, papers, short writings and notes

Reprint of ‘Sharing Stories with Mudrooroo’ in Cross/Cultures 64 (NY), 2003; lists of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Word/computer files, 20 Sept. 2003; letters received, including from Michael Jacklin, 22 November 2002; 2004 Citizen of the Year Nominee, 2004 Campbelltown City Australia Day Awards, 26 January 2004

Family photographs (for Ruby Langford Ginibi’s use in lectures), associated correspondence and cuttings 1830s-2005

Short writings, including ‘History Paper’ 12 April 2005’; ‘Preamble to the Australian Constitution’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1999; ‘The Missionaries’, 1989; ‘Ode to the Richmond River and the Bundjalung People’, by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1990; photocopy of Who’s Who entry; folder of Aboriginal designs and motifs for lecture slides showing: Boomerang design; Animal tracks, and Dreamin’ Tracks

Exercise book ‘Business accounts Book. 1996’, recording expenditure, appointments and speaking engagements, 1993-1997

Letter received from Linda Westphalen, April 2003, with enclosed photocopy of Bill Thorpe’s article, ‘Remembering Reserves: The Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission and Cemetery in Aboriginal History and Memory’, Queensland Review, vol. 9 no. 2, 2002; ‘Aboriginal Women HAB 232/332 Unit Outline’ Riawunna Centre for Aboriginal Education, University of Tasmania, Faculty of Arts, 2005; news cuttings, being mainly reviews, including photocopies, with correspondence including from June Perkins, 2002, regarding her PhD (Indigenous Women’s Identity and Empowerment Project) at Sydney University; 2 cartoons by Warren and Coopes regarding Pauline Hanson and Reconciliation, annotated and addressed verso, July 1998; ‘Copies of name place mats and names in story’ relating to Ruby Langford Ginibi’s family

Box 35

Correspondence, 1994-2001 correspondents include Desley Yuke regarding her enclosed family group sheets relating to the Anderson family; Dr Owen Campbell Mortimer, 1999; Marguerite Garcia; Mary Deans; letter from R. Liggat, Canada and response by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1995; letter to Jon Casimir, 1994; Pauline Mitchell, 1994; Maurie Ryan, 1999; Vivienne Cleven, 2000; Kylie Klumpp; Maayken, 1999; Justice Mahla L. Pearlman, President, Library Council of NSW, and response by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1999; Ray Ellis, 1999; reviews and news cuttings, 1998; ‘Singing for the Power Sisters’ poetry by June Perkins; ‘Power Sisters: Yarns for empowering us mob’, study, November 2002, compiled by June Perkins

Correspondence and consent form; ‘Djadi-Dugarang’ Volume 5, Issues 2 and 6, 2003-2004; Letter from Fay Ball, Indigenous educator, ca. 2002, with her enclosed résumé and photocopy of interview with Ball from Dance Forum, Summer, 2001; photocopy of article, ‘Mapping the Metamorphosed Black Body: A Case Study in Aboriginal Health’ by Shino Konishi, Black on Black, Vol. 1, 1998; Third draft of thesis, ‘Deadly Lives: Palimpsests in Aboriginal Women’s Life Stories’ by Linda Westphalen (Flinders University of South Australia), May 2001

Papers relating to the 12th annual Mil-Pra AECG Aboriginal Art Award and exhibition ‘Our Earth: Our Mother, Respecting and Acknowledging Our Environment’ (launched by Ruby Langford Ginibi), with Campbelltown United Realty flyer, 2004

Published maps, including Aboriginal Land and Population (2" edition, 1988)

News cuttings relating to Aboriginal history and current affairs including letter to Bryan Brown; photocopies of journal articles, ‘The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography: Ruby Langford’s Don't Take Your Love to Town’, Tim Rowse, Australian Literary Studies, vol. 16 no. 1, 1993; ‘The Politics of the Sacred’ Ken Gelder, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, no. 3, 1993, pp 499-504

Personal documents, including birth certificates for Ruby Marian (Maude) Anderson (copy), Rita Pearl Anderson (copy), and Aileen Rita Campbell (Anderson) (original), 1957, 1991, 1992; papers regarding Ruby Langford Ginibi’s divorce from Charles Peter Longford, 1984
Sketches by Ruby Langford Ginibi, Nobby, 1990-1994

Box 36

Letters received, with enclosed photographs from Linda Westphalen, 2000-2004
Letter received from Shirley Gould, 16 August 1995, with enclosed genealogical notes on Ruby Langford Ginibi’s family, with photocopied typescript of ‘Main Camp’ by Cunningham Henderson, an account of the homestead where Ruby Langford Ginibi’s grandfather, Sam Anderson (b. 1884) was first employed

Correspondence, 1999-2002, correspondents include John Barnes and Susan Ballyn teaching in Spain, Sue Abbey, Suvendrini Perera, Goh Abe, Anita Heiss (Curringa Communications), Cristna Campagna, Roberta Mitchell, Del Leslie, Daniela Miksche, Pam Johnston, Jennifer Sanford, Carolyn Allport, Janie Conway, Mudrooroo Nyoongah, Dana Twycross, Anna Robinson and others

Photocopies of ‘A Short History of the Richmond River’ (Richmond River Historical Society), and Bundjlung Aboriginal History, with related copies; Photocopies for Ruby Langford Ginibi’s My Bundjalung People, including NSW RTA Environmental Impact Statements (3) and Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness (1996) by Deborah Bird Rose

Correspondence, 2000-2003 correspondents include James Bradley, Nicholas Jose, Margaret Hickie, Thomas Feerick to Janice Reid, Victoria Bel, Suvendrini Perera, Marrickville Residents for Reconciliation, Anita Heiss, Jessie Street National Women’s Library, Lola Sharp, Helen Wilson, and manuscript short writings by Ruby Langford Ginibi, including ‘Mudrooroo. A true Nyoonga [sic]’

Papers related to the Indigenous Social Justice Association, photocopies and printed material including ‘Djadi-Dugarang’ Vol. 4. Issue 2/3/4, Constitution of the Association
Papers relating to Evans Head Native Title Claim, including letters received from John Morton, La Trobe University

Papers including issues of Djadi-Dugarang, 1998-2005; Duran Duran (Messenger), Newsletter of the Aboriginal Education Council (NSW), May 1992; Wirrigirri Rabelais (Koori edition of La Trobe University SRC), 1995 including article on Eddie Mabo by Henry Reynolds; letter received from Ray Jackson (Manager, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Support Unit - Sydney Unit), 1999

News cuttings and printed material regarding Ruby Langford Ginibi’s sister, Gwen Griffen, Councillor, Gunnedah Shire Council, including annual reports for Kamilaroi Regional Council 1997/98 and 2003/04; UWS Graduation Ceremony program, regarding Ruby Langford Ginibi’s grandson, Steve Ridgeway BA, 2 May 1996; 1990 Election for New Aboriginal Government in Australia (only gammon); Correspondence, 1990-2003 including from son Lesley Johnson (Nobby), 1990, David Sampson, 1998, Sue Abbey, letter to the Australia Council, 1999, and daughter, Aileen Campbell; cards from Pam Johnston, Tony Bolt, Rose Creswell and others; 1990 Diary, includes some 1991 entries and an address list

Box 37

Correspondence, 1994-2005 correspondents include Oliver Haag, 2004, with enclosed photograph; Santosh K. Sareen (Jawaharla Nehru University), 2004; Damita McGuinness, Gay Breyley (University of Wollongong), 2004; letter to The Hon. Carl Scully from Ruby Langford Ginibi, 2005; Sally Wilson, 1994 including an article reproduced from the Richmond River Herald on John W. Pidcock, 1938; Ray Ellis, 2003; ‘Enchantment: A story of spiritual power’ written by Doug Le Noury; guided and mentored by Vivian Mason (draft)

Red folder: ‘Enclosed are finished work Papers and Lectures’
Papers relating to ‘Welcome to Land’ delivered by Ruby Langford Ginibi for Metro Southwest region of the Dept. of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) at Picton, NSW, 2004; correspondence regarding housing accommodation, 1998-2002

‘My Poems & Rough handwritten [and typescripts] texts of the Poems as far back as 1991, 1998’, with other writings including by Ruby’s daughters Pauline and Kylie; papers related to Ruby Langford Ginibi’s family history; papers regarding NSW Premier's Literary Awards, including Ruby Langford Ginibi’s speech as recipient of Special Award, 2005

Letters received from Oliver Haag, 2005; Linda Westphalen, 2002; Australian Society of Authors Benevolent Fund, 2004; Garry Spry, 2006; Phillip Adams, 1999; Suvendrini Perera; Marilla North, 2004, regarding Australian & International Feminisms Conference; and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre regarding Sista Girls, including program and 1 x compact disc of images

Short writings (2) by Ruby Langford Ginibi; flyer for Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony, 17 April 2005, and papers regarding Elders Talk, Liverpool Regional Museum, 15 November 2005; photocopied photographs of painting taken my barrister David McIlwraith; 2 x compact discs ‘John Balugan paintings, Ruby Langford Ginibi’s papers’; ‘Aunty Ruby – Yarn’, June Perkins, 2001; Inscribed presentation copy from Gay Breyley of ‘New Talents: Backburning’ issue of Journal of Australian Studies, No. 4, 2005, including her article, ‘Unfolding Australia’s Fan of Memory: Music in Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don't Take Your Love to Town’, with computer printout of paper by Alison Ravenscroft

Box 38

Theses
Inscribed presentation edition from Linda Westphalen of PhD thesis, ‘Deadly Lives: Palimpsests in Aboriginal Women’s Life Histories’ (Flinders University of South Australia), 2002
Correspondence from Linda Westphalen with fourth draft of PhD thesis, ‘Deadly Lives: Palimpsests in Aboriginal Women’s Life Histories’ (Flinders University of South Australia), October 2001
‘Cross-Talk: Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing in Australia and Canada’ by Michael Jacklin (PhD thesis, Deakin University), 2004

Box 39

16 x 3.5 in. floppy disks (DC 57/1-16)

Ruby Langford Ginibi’s work, including ‘Real Deadly’, ‘Haunted by the Past’, ‘My Bundjalung People’ and other stories

5 x Audio cassettes (MLOH 912/12-16)

1-2: Tapes of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Uncle Jim Morgan singing in Bundjalung language and telling legends (MLOH 912/12-13)
3: Pillars of Society (songs) by Kev Carmody (MLOH 912/14)
4: Koori Love (songs) by Johnny Huckle (MLOH 912/15)
5: The Iron Man (1980) by Ted Hughes; read by Bernard Cribbins (MLOH 912/16)

Photocopy of ‘Where the Rivers Meet: Coraki 1840-1915’ (1991) by Nell Williams
Photocopy of ‘Brown’s Water Hole: History of Lismore, 1840-1961’ (1961),
compiled by J. R. Oman et al
Photocopy of ‘Aboriginal Archaeological & Anthropological Assessment. Eastern Gas Pipeline. (1995) Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Commonwealth
Photocopy of Regional Landscapes of Australia: Form, Function and Change (1971), pp. 7-14, by Nancy and Andrew Learmonth
Two annotated copies of ‘Aboriginal Songs from the Bundjalung and Gidabal Areas of South-Eastern Australia’ by Margaret Jane Gummow (PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 1992)

Box 40

5 x Audio cassettes (MLOH 912/17-21)

1: Ruby Langford Ginibi and Dr Pam Johnston lecturing at Lismore, International Women’s
Day, 5 March 1990 [Copied for Ruby Langford Ginibi by Rosie Block from MLOH 90/1-11 no. 4] (MLOH 912/17)
2: Dreamtime Legends of the Australian Aborigines (Enrec Walkabout Series, 1990) (MLOH 912/18)
3: ‘New Guinea Art in Transition’, received 1 July 1976 (MLOH 912/19)
4: ‘The Art of the Aboriginal’, received 1 July 1976 (MLOH 912/20)
5: ‘Nga Taonga Pubro’ compiled by Richard Nunns, Nelson , NZ, with letter from Richard Nunns, 28 March 1994, regarding enclosed cassette tape and draft of ‘Te Ku Te Whe’ (MLOH 912/21)

1 x Compact disc: Interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi by Paulette Whitton, 26 January 2005 for Blackchat on Radio 93.7 FM Koori Radio 2LND (DC 57/17)

Spiral bound copy of transcript of oral history interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi conducted by Frank Heimans, 2 February 2000 (NLA TRC 3966), with inserted news cuttings, 1987, 2001
Letter received from Suvendrini Perera, 2004
Greeting cards received from family and friends, including birthday and Christmas, 1982-1997

Box 41

‘Reconciliation Day’, including papers NSW Reconciliation Council, 2004; photocopies and printed material received from Dr Owen Mortimer Campbell Mortimer (Wangaratta Aboriginal Reconciliation Group)

Correspondence, 2002-2005 correspondents include Greg Thompson, Mahindra Perera, University of Sydney, Suvendrini Perera, Amber Campbell, Andrew Denton, Anita Heiss, University of Tasmania. Dianne Ridgeway including prize winning paper by Nikita Ridgeway, Georgia Close, Dorothy Shipley, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

Outline and notes of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s ‘Workshop Writing’ course including handouts of ‘Why’ by Roy Read, ‘Farewell to old England’ by Frances Claire Peters-Little, Glossary of Bundjalung Lingo, 16 May 1999, Journal article ‘Bundjalung Settlement and Migration, Margaret Sharpe, Aboriginal History 1985 9:1, and short writings by Ruby Langford Ginibi, including manuscript and typescript versions of ‘History Paper’ 12 April 2005; Curriculum Vitae, ca. 2004

News cuttings, 1978, 1994-2004

Miscellaneous papers including ‘Parent Files’, being a list of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s computer files; papers relating to an application for business funding from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, including photocopies of testimonials received by Ruby Langford Ginibi; photocopy of ‘Aboriginal Women: A Unit for Teaching Language Across the Curriculum’ (1987) by Bronwen Dyson; Home Care Service (HCS) - Warrambucca Service Outlet – Customer Booklet, being record of assistance rendered to Ruby Langford Ginibi at home; Black Women’s Action in Education Foundation newsletter

Maps
Aboriginal Australia by David Horton, AIATSIS; annotated map of northern NSW ‘Bundjalung Country’; map of South-eastern Queensland showing all places where Ruby Langford Ginibi lived and worked, and of Evans Head, Far North Coast; and issues of West of the Range Historical Society Inc. Journal, 1994-96

Box 42

Typescript draft chapters of David Sampson’s PhD thesis ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: The 1868 Aborigines and other Indigenous Performers in Mid-Victorian Britain‘, UTS, Sydney, 2000. 1: Understanding and Representing Race in Mid-Victorian England, and 2: Chapter 4 Sections 1, 2 and 3. Given to Ruby Langford Ginibi in 1996

Allawah Hostel, Granville papers including meeting minutes, books and financial statements, correspondence; embroidered handkerchief with initials “K.B.H” in black, yellow and red [Kinchela Boys Home?]

Copy of Aboriginal Heroes of the Resistance from Pemulwuy to Mabo (1999), edited by Paul W. Newbury

Typescript and manuscript lecture notes, stories and articles by Ruby Langford Ginibi, both unpublished and published, 1990-2003 (two folders)

Box 43

Address book, n.d.

Address book, 2000-ca. 2003, including diary entries and appointments

Greeting cards and letter received, 2005-2006, most from family

Greeting cards and letters received, 1993-2006

Two folders of correspondence, 1993, 1998-2007 correspondents include Ruby’s sons, Balugan (Nobby) and Allan Barrett, grandson Ronald Nicholas, and daughter, Pam Johnston; Lara and Anna Cole, Maurice Ryan, Janet Mooney, Carole Ferrier, Ray Jackson, Leah McKinnon, Vandra Braga, Professor John Barnes, Dr Michael Jacklin, Irina Dunn, Kiana Parker, Ros Bradley, Polly Connolly, Suvendrini Perera, Hamish Dunn, Mudrooroo, Dr Penny van Toorn, Dr Alison Ravenscroft, Wendy Sanderson, Janet Hutchinson, Linda Westphalen, Australian Society of Authors, Cameron Creswell Agency and Sydney PEN

Box 44

'University of Queensland Press', 1997-2007, including correspondence and reviews received regarding ‘All My Mob’, and regarding Ruby Langford Ginibi's writings, with list of her files held on floppy disk (disk not with list 2023), 1998

Curricula Vitae, ca. 1994-ca. 2004, including a concise resume and biographical information
Papers, 2006-2007, regarding 2007 National NAIDOC Award for Elder of the Year (Female), including congratulatory letters received

Papers regarding 2007 National NAIDOC Awards

Papers regarding NSW Writers' Centre's 4th Writing History Festival, Rozelle, 2022
September 2007, including panel session: 'Aboriginal History: The Knowledge Frontier'

Papers, 2007 regarding ‘Tell Me My Mother: Stories of Campbelltown's Aboriginal Women’ (2007)
'Dancing with the Prime Minister', 2006, regarding proposal for half-hour documentary film by Anna Cole, Lara Cole and Janine Matthews

Papers, 1999-2007, regarding Ruby Langford Ginibi's grandfather, cricketer and stockman Sam Anderson, and genealogical research regarding Anderson family papers, 2005, Rountree / Roundtree family

'My History Papers for Lecturing', 1996-2006

Miscellaneous papers, 2001-2005, including photocopy of Ruby Langford Ginibi's timeline of Aboriginal occupation of Australia, April 2003; issue of National Link-Up News, 5 May 2005; letter received from Maurie Ryan, 25 June 2001 ; 'Honouring Leila Murray: Heart of Justice'; and annotated photocopy of ‘Two Representative Tribes of Queensland’ by John Mathew (1910)

Papers, 2005-2007, regarding Campbelltown Local Government Aboriginal Advisory Sub Committee, including agenda and copies of minutes of meetings

Box 45

Australia Council for the Arts Writers' Emeritus Award papers, 2005-2006

Refocusing Women's Experiences of Violence Conference papers, Bankstown Town Hall, 14-16 September 2005, including Ruby Langford Ginibi's paper on domestic violence

Annotated issues of ‘Djadi-Dugarang: The Newsletter of the Indigenous Social Justice Association’, 2005-2007, mainly regarding Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Reconciliation
'NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2005 Special Award'

Reviews of ‘Haunted by the Past’ (1999), includes correspondence including from Professor John Barnes, 9 August 1999; an example of Nobby's artwork; 'Original Logic page for structuring the book ‘Haunted Past’, 1999

Miscellaneous papers, 1999-2007, including celebration at Janangalee Centre, Minto regarding 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul's Speech to Indigenous Australians in Alice Springs, 29 November 1986, with message stick blessed by him; note regarding and photos of Bruce Olive; orders of service for Charlotte Marjorie Nipps (1935-1998); Glen Douglas Wright ('Dougie') (1954-2002) and Lynette Mary Slemnik (1948-2003); news cuttings; treatment/synopsis by Ruby Langford Ginibi and Willy Wagtail Films for a feature film for ‘Don't Take Your Love To Town’, 1999; 'Issues for Community Discussion raised at the Mandalong Meeting convened by Aunty Marjorie Woodrow to discuss formation of a National Elders Council, 10-11 June 2006; photograph of Aboriginal Elder Eddie Kneebone with his cousin, Dr Owen Mortimer, at Meeting Place Mural Exhibition, Wangaratta, Vic., February 1999, with invitation to exhibition ‘Tjinytjilpa: The Dotted Design’, The Exhibition Gallery, Wangaratta, 17 September 1998, guest speaker: Dr Owen Campbell Mortimer

Box 46

'Histories of Survival: Australian Indigenous Women's Auto/Biographies past and Present' by Oliver Haag (MPhil thesis, Dept. of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, 2006), being Ruby Langford Ginibi's annotated copy

Inscribed presentation copy from Gay Jennifer Breyley of her PhD thesis, 'Memory, Music and Displacement in the Minor Memoirs of Evelyn Crawford, Ruby Langford and Lily Brett' University of Wollongong, (2005)

Short writings, including articles, talks, short stories, memoir, family history notes;
Two copies of ‘Koori Voices: Poems by Ruby Langford Ginibi, family and friends’ ca. 2007
Transcript of interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi by Oliver Haag, 18 September 2004

Box 47

‘All My Mob’ unedited photocopy, mainly typescript, 2006; edited typescript ‘All My Mob' corrected page proofs (1st) proof-reader’s copy; Master Set', 2006

Box 48

News cuttings, 1993-2007, including personal mentions and on Aboriginal current affairs

Box 49

Selected issues of newspapers, annotated: Koori Mail, September 2006-July 2007, and National Indigenous Times, May 2006- July 2007

Box 50

Printed material, 2001-2005, including exhibition catalogues, programs and issues of periodicals

15 x 3.5 in. floppy disks of Ruby Langford Ginibi's writings (DC 57/18-32)

1 x Audio cassette: Interview with Ruby Langford Ginibi by Gay Breyley (University of Wollongong), 21 December 2004 (MLOH 912/22)

Box 51

‘Sorry: More than a word’ exhibition catalogue, 2008; ‘In Living Memory’ exhibition catalogue, 2008-2010; ‘Aboriginal Hostel News’ December 2008; ‘Social Justice and Native Title reports’, AHRC, 2008; ‘Reconciliation News’ No. 14, 2009; annotated edition of ‘A Journey into Bundjalung Country’ photographs by Pam Johnston, text by Ruby Langford Ginibi and Pam Johnston, 1991
News cuttings 2008-2010

Printed material including issues of the ‘Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal’; ‘Finding your Mob’; ‘Casino: A Cricket History’ includes annotations relating to Sam Anderson; issue of ‘National Indigenous Times’, 2009; exhibition catalogue ‘Marella: The Hidden Mission’; ‘When Home was Australia’ by Blanka Svobodova (In Czech) inscribed to Ruby, 2010, 2009-2010; journals, newsletters

Correspondence 2008-2010, correspondents include cards from family and friends, Janet Hutchinson, letter of acceptance of Doctorate of Letters (Honoris causa), Southern Cross University, 2009, Aileen Campbell

Sketches by Ruby Langford Ginibi

Box 52

Published works, annotated:
‘Due Inheritance’ by Ted Egan inscribed to Doctor Ruby, 2009;
‘How to Cook a Galah’ by Laurel Evelyn Dyson;
‘Bonalbon Musta’ by Ruby Langford (Finnish edition of ‘Don’t Take Your Love to Town’), 2000;
‘Different Lives: Banjdalang Poems’ by Christopher Green, 1988;
‘The Dark Side’ poems by Cherie Imlah, 1990 inscribed to Ruby by Jackie Huggins;
‘My People’ by Kath Walker, 1979, 1978; ‘Meridian’ Volume 17, Number 1, May 1998 includes ‘Black Swan – a special section on Ruby Langford Ginibi; My Bundjalung people / Ruby Langford Ginibi, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1994

Manuscript of occasional speech given at Southern Cross University Graduation Ceremony, ephemera including official photographs of awarding of Honorary Doctor of Letters to Ruby Langford Ginibi, Southern Cross University, 2010 includes 1 x DVD of the ceremony
Disability Ambassador material

Koori Voices, Poems and Prose drafts, copies of poems, manuscript annotations, 2008

Box 53

Published works, annotated:
‘Tell My Mother: Stories of Campbelltown’s Aboriginal Women’, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2007;
The strength of us as women : black women speak / compiled by Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Charnwood, A.C.T. : Ginninderra Press, 2000;
Paperbark : a collection of black Australian writings / edited by Jack Davis et al, St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1990, 1996;
Ngali Ngalga (let's talk) : poetry / by Burraga Gutya (Ken Canning), Sydney : Breakout Press, 1990 inscribed to Ruby by Burraga (Ken) 1997;
Where there's life there's spirit / by Norm Newlin, Sydney : N. Newlin, 1988, inscribed ”To Ruby, yours in the struggle, Norm Newlin, 1990”;
Blackberry's child / Joy Williams (Janaka Wiradjuri), Sydney : Breakout Press, 1991, inscribed “To Ruby, With love & we will always be Sisters in the struggle against racism & oppression! Janaka Wiradjuri, 5th March ’82 XX”;
Rivers of blood : massacres of the Northern Rivers Aborigines and their resistance to the white occupation 1838-1870 / by Rory Medcalf, Lismore, N.S.W. : Northern Star, 1989, and annotated photocopy of ‘Look Dad, They’re Hanging Grandpa’ by Gilbert Anstruther, Sydney, Melbourne, London : Murray, 1968

Ancestry: Family trees

Short Writing by Ruby Langford Ginibi including ‘ANZAC Day 2009’, ‘Time-Line’, 1998, ‘Preamble, 1999’, ’The Stolenwealth Games. 2006’, ‘Koori Community Kitchen opening speech, 2009’, ‘The Constitution’ (for Andrew Refshauge), March 2003, ’History paper’, 1995-1996 and other writing

Photographs, including a copy of a photograph of Ruby at the age of 16, newsletter

Correspondence, 1999-2010 correspondents include Ronald Nicholas, Janet Hutchinson, Gail Russell, Tracey Savage, family and friends

News cuttings, 2007-2009 includes Sydney Morning Herald liftout ‘100 years of Herald Photography’ featuring a photograph of Ruby’s daughter Pearl dancing with then Prime Minister Gorton, 1968

Box 54

Published material, annotated:
Country childhoods / edited by Geoffrey Dutton, St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1992;
The Strength of Us as Women: Black Women Speak, compiled by Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Ginninderra Press, 2000;
‘Black Hours’ by Wayne King, Angus & Robertson, 1996, inscribe to Ruby by Pam Johnston;
‘Who’s in whose Canon? Transforming Aboriginal Writers into Big Guns’, by Ruby Langford Ginibi & Penny van Toorn, ‘Southerly’ Spring, 1997, pp. 125-136;
'Sharing Stories with Mudrooroo’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi;
‘Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo’ edited by Annalisa Oboe, 2003, pp. 225-231;
Blood on the Wattle: Massacre and maltreatment of Australian Aborigines since 1788’ by Bruce Elder, National Book Distributors, Brookvale NSW, 1988, 1992;
‘Mission Life Memories, by Ruby Langford Ginibi, ‘Ulitarra’, No. 2, 1992, pp. 45-48; ‘Ulitarra’, No. 9, 1996;
‘Hecate: An interdisciplinary journal of Women’s Liberation’ Volume 12, Nos. 1 and 2, 1986;
‘Talking with Ruby Langford Ginibi’ by Janine Little, ‘Hecate’ Volume 20, No. 1, 1994, pp. 100-121;
‘Sacred Cows’ by Anita Heiss, Magabala Books, Broome, W.A., 1996;
‘The Indigenous Literature of Australia: Milli Milli Wangka’, by Mudrooroo, Hyland House, South Melbourne, Victoria, 1997;
’My Place’ by Sally Morgan, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle W.A., 1987

Diary: Ruby Langford Ginibi, 1999

Box 55

Correspondence, 2008-2010 correspondents include John Barnes, Roy Kilner, Pauline Mitchell, Joel Gibson, letter to Queensland University Press including poems by Gary Potts

Published material, annotated: Country childhoods / edited by Geoffrey Dutton, St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1992, Edited manuscript ‘Koori Voices: Poems and Prose’, including cover letter from University of Queensland Press, 2008

Writers Festival ephemera, community newsletters ; copy of essay ‘Infamy of the Intervention’ by Waratah Rose Gillespie, January, 2009; manuscript ANZAC Biscuit recipe by Ruby Langford Ginibi; ‘Welcome to Land’, Dharawal country, manuscript, November 2008; Koori Mail article on Gwen Griffen, 2009; copy of a journal article by Janine Little Nyoongah ‘Australian Cleverwoman: and Aboriginal writer beats the blues’, ‘Race and Class, Volume 40, No. 1, 1998; ‘That’s Doctor Ginibi To You: hard lessons in the history and publication of Ruby Langford Ginibi’ by Janine Little Nyoongah, ‘Southerly’ Volume 58, No. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. 31-47; ‘Grandfather Sam Anderson’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi, ‘Australian Writing’, edited by Manfred Jurgensen and Robert Adamson, ‘Outrider: A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia’, 1988, pp. 40-45

Material relating to audiovisual carriers removed from boxes 60-66 including notes and correspondence, 1989-1998

Box 56

Published material, annotated:
How it Seamed / Graham Smith, East Coraki, N.S.W. : G. Smith, 1995;
Auntie Rita / Rita Huggins and Jackie Huggins, Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
People under the skin : an Irish immigrant's experience of Aboriginal Australia / Clare Dunne, Carlingford, NSW : Lotus Pub. House, 1988 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Corn beef and damper : lives of the Yulgilbar selectors / Isabel Wilkinson, Lismore : Northern Star Print, 1983;
Life in Gadigal country / edited by Anita Heiss, Marrickville, N.S.W. : Gadigal Information Service, 2002;
In and around the Mid-Richmond with George Hunt : a pictorial look at an earlier era, 1908 to 1939 / compiled by Nita Haynes for the Mid-Richmond Retirement Village Committee, Coraki, N.S.W. The Committee, 1983;
Where the rivers meet : Coraki, 1840-1915 / Nell Williams, Coraki, N.S.W. : N. Williams, 1991;
Civil rights : how indigenous Australians won formal equality / John Chesterman, St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2005;
‘Australian Short Stories, No. 43, edited by Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood, Pascoe Publishing, Apollo Bay, VIC, 1993;
Jessie Street : documents and essays / edited by Heather Radi, Broadway, NSW : Women's Redress Press, 1990;
Holocaust Island / Graeme Dixon, St Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1990;
Paperbark : a collection of black Australian writings / edited by Jack Davis et al, St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1990, 1993;
The Garden of Gethsemane : poems from the lost decade / Mudrooroo, South Yarra, Vic. : Hyland House, 1991;
A place by the river : 150 years of Tabulam history / by Isabel Wilkinson ; foreword by Elyne Mitchell, Tabulam, N.S.W. : I. Wilkinson, 1992;
Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia / Penelope van Toorn, Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
If everyone cared : autobiography of Margaret Tucker M.B.E, London : Grosvenor, 1977, 1987;
‘Up Here on the Hill, Bub Bridger, Mallinson Rendel, 1989 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
The Strength of us as women : black women speak / compiled by Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Charnwood, A.C.T. : Ginninderra Press, 2000;
Aboriginal writing today : papers from the first National Conference of Aboriginal Writers, held in Perth, Western Australia, in 1983 / edited by Jack Davis & Bob Hodge, Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1985;
The new diversity : Australian fiction 1970-88 / Ken Gelder & Paul Salzman, Melbourne : McPhee Gribble, 1989 (includes manuscript letter from Ken Gelder to Ruby Langford Ginibi;
Song and return : poems and a satirical play / by Fata Sano Malifa, Apia, Western Samoa : Samoa Observer, 1992 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Australian-Canadian studies : a journal for the humanities & the social sciences, Volume 12, N0. 2, 1994;
‘Talking with Ruby Langford Ginibi’ by Janine Little, ‘Hecate’ Volume 20, No. 1, 1994, pp. 100-121

Box 57

Edited typescript ‘Haunted by the Past: The Story of Nobby and Others’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi, 26 June 1997

Typescript ‘Koori Voices, Poems and Prose’ by Ruby Langford Ginibi, Family and Friends

Family cards, correspondence, ephemera, locks of hair, 1973, 1981-2004

Correspondence, 1996-2009 correspondents include Faith Bandler, Anna Robinson, Mary Washington, Penny van Troon

Personal papers including Vice Chancellor’s citation speech for Honorary Doctorate, 10 April 2010, interview transcript with Oliver Haag, 2004, Health, Housing and Social Security papers and records, manuscript list for book launch, Wedding invitation, 1996

Published material, annotated:
‘Bonalbon Musta’ by Ruby Langford (Finnish edition of ‘Don’t Take Your Love to Town’), 2000;
Talkin’ about country / Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Watson, ACT : Kuracca Communications, 2002 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
‘Hecate’ Volume 17, No. 2, 1991, pp. 35-36;
Southerly : the Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Volume 60 No. 1, 2000;
Songman : the story of an Aboriginal elder of Uluru / Bob Randall, Sydney : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003

Box 58

Published material, annotated:
'Australian-Canadian studies : a journal for the humanities & the social sciences', Volume 10, No. 2, 1992;
'Meanjin', Volume 53, No. 1, 1994 Autumn (includes letter from David Sampson);
‘Hecate: An interdisciplinary journal of Women’s Liberation’ Volume 25, No. 2, 1999;
‘Hecate: An interdisciplinary journal of Women’s Liberation’ Volume 30, No. 1, 2004 (Thirtieth Birthday Issue);
Dying inside / Duncan Graham, Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1989 (includes paper clipping on Deaths in Custody);
The callused stick of wanting / Romaine Moreton, St Peters, N.S.W. : R. Moreton, 1995 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Wilder shores : women's travel stories of Australia & beyond / edited by Robin Lucas & Clare Forster, St Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1992;
Life in Gadigal country / edited by Anita Heiss, Marrickville, N.S.W. : Gadigal Information Service, 2002;
Aboriginal English : a cultural study / J.M. Arthur, Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996;
Snake dancing / Roberta Sykes, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998;
The Toucher / Dorothy Hewett, Ringwood, Vic. : McPhee Gribble, 1994 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Master of the ghost dreaming : a novel / by Mudrooroo, North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1991 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Women of the sun / Hyllus Maris and Sonia Borg, Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1985;
Baal Belbora : the end of the dancing: the agony of the British invasion of the ancient people of the three rivers, the Hastings, the Manning and the Macleay, in New South Wales / Geoffrey Blomfield ; introduction by Russel Ward, Armidale, N.S.W. : Colonial Research Society, 1992;
Singer songwriter / Alf Taylor, Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 1992;
Weeping waters : a novel based on a true story / Anne Maria Nicholson, Auckland; New York : HarperCollins, 2010 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Rudy Wiebe and the historicity of the word / Penny van Toorn, Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 1995 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Sketches of Amerindian tribes 1841-1843 / by Edward A. Goodall ; with an introduction and notes by M. N. Menezes, London : British Museum Publications for the National Commission for Research Materials on Guyana, 1977;
Overland, Volume 149, Summer, 1997;
Gorn shearing / by Harold Hunt, Hay, N.S.W. : Riverine Grazier, 2002 (inscribed to Ruby by the author);
Maps, dreams, history : race and representation in Australia / edited by Jan Kociumbas ; with essays by Richard Glover [et al.], Sydney, : Dept. of History, University of Sydney, 1998;
'Hecate: An interdisciplinary journal of Women’s Liberation’, Volume 19, No. 2, 1993

Box 59X

Scrapbook with news cuttings, 1974-1997
Two laminated posters’ Real Deadly’ and ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’; original laminated sketch for cover of ‘Don’t take your Love to Town’
Two laminated family trees
Two New South Wales State Literary Awards Shortlist posters, one annotated by Ruby Langford Ginibi “I was the first Aboriginal ever invited to sit on this judging panel for (Ministry of Arts) in 1993. I told them that it seemed a bit tokenistic to me and they said ’No! No! we want to right that great wrong’. But there were no Kooris in the 1994 Panel of Judges!”
Laminated charts (2) by Linda Westphalen, April 2001
Ruby Langford Ginibi’s family tree and genealogical notes on butcher’s paper, including Anderson family, and copies1996-98

For written material relating to audiovisual carriers removed from boxes 60-66 including notes and correspondence, 1989-1998 see box 55

Maps located at .......
Four published maps:
Springbrook No. 213, Zone 8
Brushgrove No. 276, Zone 8
Grafton No. 275, Zone 8
Lismore Sheet 9540-11

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