Victorian Aboriginal Group [Seventeenth annual report]

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Accession[1987.0162] Papers of the Leeper FamilyIdentifierUMA-ITE-1987016200074Scope and ContentAnnual report for year ending 30 June 1946. Includes information relating to membership, meetings, finances, publications, events and excursions. Speakers and presenters mentioned include: Mr. Rex Battarbee showing sketches by the Pareroultja brothers [Edwin Otto and Reuben], and by Walter Ebateringa and Albert Namitjira; Mrs. Mackenzine [of Aurukun] spoke on the work of the Mission in the Gulf of Carpentaria; Mr. Oswald Gration on his experiences with Aboriginal Australians in Central Australia; Valentine Leeper on the James Noble Fund; Mr. Ronald Trudinger spoke of his work with Aboriginal Australians and 'nomadic children' at Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges, teaching them to read and write in their own language; Miss Mason on the Croker Island Settlement and Aboriginal children being removed from their families; Miss Helen Baillie on Lake Tyers, and camps at Lakes Entrance and Orbost. Discusses: the Church Army Training School (training Aboriginal people for mission work); educational provisions at the Mount Margaret Mission, through the Education Fund; the Child Welfare Exhibition; the National Missionary Council; the Australian Aborigines League; the Commonweatlth Control of Native Affairs; employment of Australian Aborigines; rocket tests in Central Australia. Annual Report includes 'Notes from all States' which summarises interstate developments and activities with Aboriginal Australians and Missions.
NATURAL: Hermannsburg School [of art]; Aborigines' Welfare Association; Living conditions; Channel Island leper colony; Aboriginal Inland Mission.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit1987.0162 Unit 0004

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CreatorLeeper FamilyRoleProvenance

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Date1946

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Previous System ID1987.0162.00074

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SubjectAboriginal AustraliansChild welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generationsDance - Recreational - CorroboreeHabitation - NomadismPolitics and Government - Elections - Voting rightsReligions - Christianity - MissionsSocial identity - Mixed descentSubject (Place)Pukatja / Ernabella (SA Central Australia SG53-09)Lakes Entrance (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-07)Bung Yarnda / Lake TyersOrbost (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-07)Flinders Island map area (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)Croker Island (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)

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Victorian Aboriginal Group [Seventeenth annual report]