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Surname/tag: Australia, Indigenous Australians
This page is to record and celebrate those activists who set the groundwork, and those who worked towards the 1967 Referendum to change the Constitution in Australia, allowing the Australian Government to make laws in respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and to enable them to be officially recorded in the Australian Census. Please feel free to add to this page if you know of others involved.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Activists for Civil Rights
Name | Biography | Connected |
Ida Lessing Faith (Mussing) Bandler | Yes | Yes |
Charles Nelson Perkins | Yes | |
Burnum Burnum | Yes | Yes |
Douglas Ralph Nicholls | Yes | Yes |
Winnie Branson | https://www.indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/winnie_branson | |
Pearl Mary (Brown) Gibbs | Yes | |
Jack Kinchela | ||
Dulcie Flower | https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/dulcie-flower/ | |
John Patten | Yes | |
William Ferguson | ||
William Cooper | ||
Margeret Elizabeth (Clements) Tucker | ||
Shadrach Livingstone James | Yes | Yes |
WIlliam Townsend Onus | Yes |
Other Activists contributing to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Other names to investigate:
- John Moriarty
- Vincent Copley
Sources
- https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-legacy-of-the-pioneers-of-the-1967-referendum/i4v3hmchq
- https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/aapa/
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-27/families-of-1967-campaigners-reflect-on-indigenous-rights/102401514
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborigines_Progressive_Association
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aborigines%27_League
About Winnie Branson:
- https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/ngadjuri-elder-and-changemaker-vincent-copley-passes-away-aged-85/crq2ash4w
- https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2019/02/01/kids-from-the-alice-when-malcolm-met-menzies/
- https://www.indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/john_moriarty
- https://indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/vince_copley
- https://theconversation.com/vince-copley-had-a-vision-for-a-better-australia-and-he-helped-make-it-happen-with-lifelong-friend-charles-perkins-192097#:~:text=Copley%20is%20descended%20%28through%20his%20grandmother%20Maisie%20May,His%20ancestral%20connections%20included%20Ngadjuri%2C%20Narungga%2C%20and%20Ngarrindjeri.
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