The University of Queensland

• Aborigines & Torres Strait Islanders in 1960s Australia
• Under the Act in Queensland
• Organisations & Activists
• Labour Rights & Land Rights
• Bibliography

 

These sources provide information about the social and political background of the 1967 referendum, the Queensland state laws governing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs at the time, the organisations and individuals at the forefront of campaigns in the 1960s for civil rights for indigenous people, the key events leading up to the referendum, the referendum itself, and other indigenous struggles of the era.

For other Fryer Library collections relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies see Fryer Library Special Collections

Citing this resource: Fryer Library 2007. 1967 Referendum http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/1967_referendum/index.html

• CATSIAL   Cairns Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League, a Cairns based organisation linked to the QCAATI. One of its main activists was Joe McGinness who became president of the FCAATSI in 1962
• FCAATSI  Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, the organisation that led the ‘Yes’ campaign across Australia
• QCAATI  Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres [Strait] Islanders

Bacon, Eva. 'Papers, 195?-1992'

Contains reports, proposals and correspondence relating to Aboriginal struggles and the policies of the Communist Party of Australia on Aboriginal issues.
Fryer Mss UQFL241

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. 'Records, 1909-1977'

Contains correspondence and reports relating to campaigns for Aborigines in 1964-65, and a copy of a leaflet Vote 'Yes' for Aborigines.
Fryer Mss UQFL199

Communist Party of Australia. 'Records, 1937-1990'

Contains publications by the QCAATI from the 1960s and other material about Aboriginal issues and campaigns of the period.
Fryer Mss UQFL234

Crawford, Jim. 'Papers, 1917-1997'

Contains articles, correspondence and newspaper cuttings relating to Aboriginal struggles, 1950s and 1960s.
Fryer Mss UQFL301

Healy, Constance. 'Papers, 193?-2000'

Contains a substantial volume of material on Aboriginal affairs in the 1960s, including reports, newsletters and bulletins produced by
FCAATSI and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, and reports on Aboriginal affairs produced by trade unions and
churches.
Fryer Mss UQFL191

Loughlin, K.B. Cherbough Settlement, Thursday March 24, 1966

Report of a visit to Cherbough by representatives of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, organised to investigate wage rates
and employment conditions of Aboriginal union members.
Fryer Mss F2046

Marchisotti, Daisy. 'Papers, 1905-1982'

Includes FCAATSI conference reports, notes and minutes; records relating to freedom rides; QCAATI articles and correspondence; personal
correspondence relating to the indigenous movement; correspondence and articles on Black Power and Aboriginal advancement.
Fryer Mss UQFL156

McFarlane, Marie. Documenting Left Politics and Struggles in Brisbane

Includes copies of The Tribune from 1966 and Catholic Worker from 1967.
Fryer Mss UQFL281

Noonuccal, Oodgeroo. 'Papers, 194?-1985'

Contains material relating to FCAATSI and other indigenous organisations of the 1960s, photographs of herself in the 1960s, and manuscripts
of poems written in the 1960s.
Fryer Mss UQFL84

O'Neill, Dan. 'Papers, 1966-1983'

Contains press cuttings and leaflets from 1966 relating to Aboriginal issues.
Fryer Mss UQFL132

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland. 'Records, 1894-'

Contains union declarations, leaflets and reports on Aboriginal rights, produced in the 1960s.
Fryer Mss UQFL118

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland. 'Submissions re Aboriginal Legislation' (1963).

Fryer Mss F1939

Union of Australian Women. 'Records, 1930s-1998'

Contains reports and leaflets relating to Aboriginal campaigns of the 1960s.
Fryer Mss UQFL193

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Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League. Ephemera, 1960-1968

Includes CATSIAL bulletins and submissions relating to indigenous civil rights and proposals for new Queensland laws governing Aborigines.
Fryer Mss FVF2

Bakker, Henry. ABSCHOL Papercuttings of Aboriginal Affairs, 1963-1966

Fryer Mss F2186

Fryer Library holds back runs of all major Australian newspapers, mostly in microform. These holdings include:

The Age
Fryer Microfilm MIC3398

The Australian
Fryer Microfilm MIC3352

The Courier Mail
Fryer Microfilm MIC2821

Queensland Guardian
Fryer Jnl AN312.Q4

Smoke Signals
Official organ of the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League.
Fryer Jnl DU120.A1 S46

Sydney Morning Herald
Fryer Microfilm MIC3385

The Library also holds the Microfiche Collection of Australian Newspaper Cuttings, compiled by the Department of Political Science, ANU. Fryer Microfiche FIC7595

Meston, Archibald.

Queensland Aboriginals: Proposed System for their Improvement and Preservation (1895)
Fryer DU274.M43 1895

Patton, J.T.

Aborigines claim Citizens' Rights : a Statement of the case for the Aborigines Progressive Association (1938?)
Fryer DU120.G6 P36 1938

Street, Jessie Mary Grey.

Report on Aborigines in Australia. May/June 1957 (1957)
Fryer DU120.G6 S734 1957

Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League.

Declaration of Rights of the Queensland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders: Decisions of the First Conference of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League, Cairns, 29/31 July 1960 (1960)
Fryer Qto DU274.A4 1960

Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Committee on Legislative Reform.

Principles of Legislation for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders / prepared for the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (1965)
Fryer Qto KTA1150.P75 1965

Queensland Parliament.

A Bill to Promote the Well-Being and Progressive Development of the Aboriginal inhabitants of the State and of the Torres Strait Islanders, 1965 (1965)
Fryer Qto KTA1910.Q42 A34 1965

Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Committee on Legislative Reform.

Legislation for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia / prepared for the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (1966)
Fryer Qto KTA1150.F43 1966

Tomasetti, William Ernest.

One People of Australia League (1967)
Fryer Qto DU274.O6 T6 1967

Australia. Commonwealth Electoral Office.

Referendums to be held on Saturday, 27th May, 1967 on the proposed laws for the alteration of the Constitution entitled Constitution Alteration (Parliament) 1967 and Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967 : the arguments for and against the proposed alterations together with a statement showing the proposed alterations (1967)
Fryer JF493.A85 A8 1967

 

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