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1930 - South Coastal - view
speak from a fruit box
1930 - South Coastal - view
1938 celebration of 150 years of white settlement
1930 - North West - view
The onset of the Depression causes many shantytowns to be built in and around Newcastle. Probably for the first time white people hardest hit by the Depression are forced to live alongside Aboriginal people
1931 - South Coastal - view
organise a camp for unemployed Aboriginal workers
1932 - South Coastal - view
talk on politics
1933 - South Coastal - view
organises a strike
1934 - North West - view
William Cooper establishes the Australian Aborigines League in Melbourne
1934 - North West - view
Cooper also gathers signatures for a petition to the King to have an Aboriginal representative in the Lower House of Federal Parliament
1935 - North West - view
publishes a hymn book comprising hymns composed by “native workers
1935 - South Coastal - view
Land Rights
1935 - South Coastal - view
landlords evicting tenants
1937 - North West - view
Native Welfare Conference heralds the beginning of the absorption policy . This means that all Aborigines of mixed descent are expected eventually to be uplifted into the working classes within a single Australian community. People of full Aboriginal descent are expected to “vanish”. The conference resolves that the “destiny of the Aborignal race”, but not of the “full-blood”, lies in their ultimate absorption by the people of the Commonwealth, and recommends that all efforts be directed to that end
1937 - North West - view
APB seeks to take care of Aboriginal people whether they be “full-blood”, “half-caste”, “octoroon” or “quadroons”