Records

Each record focuses on a single item from the National Archives' collection. Some records contain extra information to help you interpret them.

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  High Court native title ruling – Prime Minister Paul Keating's address to the nation

  Sound recording of the Prime Minister's address to the nation on the High Court native title ruling.

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  Indigenous activists Eddie Mabo and Jack Wailu on Mer (Murray Island)

  A black-and-white photograph showing Eddie Mabo with his friend and neighbour Jack Wailu on Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait Islands, in September 1989.

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  Land rights for First Australians – information supporting petition

  A 1968 pamphlet titled 'Land Rights for Aborigines – Answering Your Questions'. It explains what land Aboriginal people want and what they hope to do with it.

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  Letter from NSW Premier to the prime minister endorsing proposed conference on 'native' welfare

  Letter from NSW Premier to the prime minister endorsing proposed conference on 'native' welfare

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  Letter from William Cooper on behalf of the Australian Aborigines League

  This is a letter written by William Cooper to the Minister for the Interior, Canberra, regarding the goals and views of the Australian Aborigines League.

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  Mick Rangiari and Vincent Lingiari asserting their right to Aboriginal lands, Gurindji

  A black-and-white photograph of Mick Rangiari and Vincent Lingiari at Gurindji Mining Lease and Cattle Station

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  Petition to King George V from the 'Aboriginal Inhabitants of Australia’

  A typed page from a formal petition to King George V, requesting his intercession 'to prevent the extinction of the Aboriginal Race'.

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  Portrait of Aboriginal Artist Albert Namatjira

  A black-and-white photograph of artist Albert Namatjira standing beside his truck, displaying a landscape painting which is pinned to a backing board.

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  Publicity photograph of Indigenous students taken at Doomadgee Mission School in Queensland

  This black-and-white photograph shows five Indigenous children at school.