The broadsheet Australian Abo Call is established with Jack Patten as chief editor. It is an important vehicle for distributing news of Aboriginal issues, all over Australia . It's six editions open up issues of ‘Full citizens rights,’ and discuss conflict over school segregation, pressure on reserve lands, the refusal to allow Aboriginal people to control their own family endowment payments, and the denial of access to alcohol. (Goodall, 1996, pp. 240-242)
