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MS Acc07/39 comprises correspondence with Judith Wright regarding the Eddie Koiko Mabo autobiography/biography and the Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Also, Aboriginal Treaty Committee meeting minutes and newsletters, conferences papers and speeches. Also included is correspondence with the National Aboriginal Conference Secretariat and some native title information (1 box).

Noel Loos has lived his life in the shadow of two holocausts.Though born in Australia prior to World War II, his father was born in the now infamous war-trial town of Nuremberg in Germany. Living and working in Australia of German origin was not easy. Accused of being a Nazi with no proof, Loos’ father was persecuted nonetheless. No one in Australia had any idea of the unfolding holocaust in Europe. Hitler and Stalin conservatively murdered 14 million people between them. After contact with Aboriginal people while teaching in a remoteNorth Queensland railway siding in 1954, Noel Loos committedhimself to research into the history of colonisation in Queensland. He has subsequently concluded that the Aboriginal people had been subject to a genocide, a holocaust different from that inflicted on the Jews in Europe, but equivalent to it. Leading educationists in Queensland asked Loos to set up a course to assist teachers committing themselves to the education of Indigenous children and subsequently to a support system that would assist Aboriginal and Islander students, without the stipulated entry requirements, to successfully graduate as teachers. This is his story.

This book frames the Church of England's missionary outreach to Aboriginal people within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation, and neglect. As missionary control diminished, Aboriginal people responded more overtly and autonomously. Some regarded "white" Christianity as irrelevant while others adopted it in culturally satisfying ways. Through the Australian Board of Missions (ABM), the Church of England sought to convert Aboriginal people into a Europeanized compliant sub-caste. The separation of children from their families was the first step. The book also shows how the ABM found itself increasingly embroiled in emerging broader social issues and changing government policies, requiring it to rethink its own policies.

'He was in the best sense a fighter for equal rights, a rebel, a free-thinker, a restless spirit, a reformer who saw far into the future and far into the past.' Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen, plaintiffs' barrister in the Mabo litigation Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement. Tragically, Mabo died just months before the historic High Court native-title decision that destroyed forever the concept of terra nullius. Originally published by UQP in 1996, this new edition has been updated by Mabo's long-time friend historian Noel Loos. New photographs and a preface by esteemed film director Rachel Perkins give this book the new life it deserves.

Published version of authors Ph.D. Thesis, MS 1262, Aboriginal-European relations in north Queensland, 1861-1897 q.v. for annotation.

History of enclave support, Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (AITEP) and affirmative action programmes at James Cook University.

Use of process of affirmative action to enable Aborigines to enter the teaching profession.

Description and analysis of Aboriginal/European relations in the Bowen district; includes account of Aboriginal social organisation, material culture, economic life, religious beliefs, based on the literature; appendices include extracts describing Aboriginal life and Morrill's vocabulary for Aborigines in the area (Mt Eliott local group), from chapter III of The story of James Morrill; vocabularies by F.M. Tompson and W. Chatfield from E.M. Currs the Australian Race; tribes; Wulgurukaba, Bindal, Juru, Gia, Biria, Ilba.

Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement.