UNION AND ORGANISATION
RECORDS
The records of many unions and organisations include
files about Aboriginal organisations and issues. The items listed below are
just a sample.
Amalgamated Metal Workers
Union
Aborigines – Federal Council for Aboriginal
Advancement, 1970–78 (Z102/30)
Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen
of Australia, Federal Council Aborigines Strike Fund, 1967 (E192/9/4)
Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations
Aborigines,
1964–70 (E215/19, 49)
Australian Council of Trade
Unions
Correspondence
with unions – WA and Darwin, 1929–40 (N21/48)
Secretary’s
subject files – Aborigines, 1946–71 (N21/362 & 662, N68/1–3)
North
Australian Workers Union, 1946–69 (N21/625, 2030–32)
Congress minutes, 19.9.63 and 16.9.65 (S784/2–3)
Tas
Branch – Aborigines, 1958–68 (E231/99, N11/1)
SA Branch – Aboriginal Education Foundation of SA, 1968–69
(N79/461)
Australian Teachers
Federation
Education
for Aborigines seminar, 1966 (E223/25)
Aboriginal education, 1966–73 (E275/1–2)
Australian Workers Union
Pastoral Industry Award, AWU v. Pastoralists’
Federal Council of Australia, 1917 (N117/560)
Clothing and Allied Trades Union of
Australia, Federal Office
General correspondence, 1965 (N84/205)
Federated Engine Drivers & Firemen’s
Association, New South Wales Branch
Aboriginal rights, 1977–83 (N72/1226–27)
SA
Branch – ACTU Congress 1963, Aborigines – equal wages (N98/32)
Federated Miscellaneous
Workers Union
Aborigines – FCAATSI and other organisations prior
to 1972 (Z370/79)
Aboriginal advancement, 1962–75 & Aboriginals –
Northern Territory, 1963–73 (Z370/80)
North Australian Workers Union – minutes and
correspondence, 1971–76 (Z370/12)
Federation of Scientific and Technical
Workers, Victorian Branch
Correspondence with Aboriginal organisations, 1946–56 (A14/8/6)
Aboriginal
land rights, 1964–82 (N92/843–45)
Aborigines,
1965–75 (N111/1–8)
FCAATSI,
1965–73 (N111/9–16)
North Australian Workers
Union
Correspondence, 1942–44 (E170A/1)
Seaman’s Union of Australia
Fremantle
Branch – correspondence and clippings, 1945–57 (E183/17/9)
Federal Office – Aborigines, 1961–78 (N38/61–65)
Victorian Branch – Aborigines, 1966–72 (Z263/1)
Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1957–65 (Z263/12)
Sydney Branch – Aborigines, 1970–78 (Z91/95)
Sheetmetal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking
Industrial Union of Australia
Papers
of TW Wright, NSW Branch Secretary and Federal President – Aboriginal
organisations,
1960–72 (E206/1)
Federal
Council meeting, May 1964 (E245/33)
Education
of Australian Aborigines (N91/264)
Union of Postal Clerks & Telegraphists, Executive Council,
Sydney
Thompson
case, 1970–71 (E226/98–100)
FCAATSI,
1964–72 (E226/389–92)
Aborigines – FCAATSI, 1963–66 (N114/489)
Aborigines
– land rights – Gurindjis, 1972–74 (N114/490)
Aborigines,
1976–80 (Z432/24)
Aborigines
– employment, 1964–65 (Z432/24)
Aborigines
– land rights, includes Noonkanbah dispute, 1965–82 (Z432/24)
Sydney
Branch photograph – Aborigines demonstrating for equal rights (Z248/80)
Sydney
Branch pamphlets on Aborigines (Z248/69)
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre holds records of a number of Australian
pastoral companies and stations where Aboriginal people lived and worked. We
also have comprehensive maps to identify stations and a complete set of the Australian
Pastoral Directory to track ownership of stations. Some examples of
company records are:
Brunette Downs Station files on Aboriginal/Native payments,
1963–71 (Z354/1 & 5)
Eva
Downs Pastoral Co native wages books,
1963–68
(Z200/79)
Creswell
Downs Pastoral Co native wages books, 1959–68 (Z200/83A)
Walhallow
Pastoral Co Pty Ltd native wages book, 1961–68 (Z200/87)
‘Native
Ledger’ – Victoria River Downs Station, 1932–50 (87/5)
Statements
of wages paid to Aboriginal station and domestic workers on Victorian River
Downs Station, 1951–52 (42/12)
Papers
relating to Aboriginals and their employment, 1945–48 (42/14)
Papers
relating to Aborigines employed on Victoria River Downs, 1954–60 (87/18)
Aboriginal
employment – printed regulations and reports, 1945–51 (119/11)
Dalgety Ltd
Correspondence
between London Office and WA Branch, 1899 (N8/90)
Mt
Eba Station ledgers, 1879–1900 (8/212/2–7)
Ularunda
Station, Queensland: labour contracts, 1929–38 (14/3/3) and wages, 1928–32
(14/4/17)
McKillop & Sons Pty Ltd
Buddha
Station, Narromine, wages and rations, 1871–78 (Z376/17)
Peel River Land and Mineral
Company
Correspondence
from United Graziers Association on employment of Aborigines, 1922 (115/50)
Aborigines,
1971–74 (P119/3)
Aborigines – letters, notes, printed material,
1890–1969 (P96/11)
Documentary
material of 1946 Pilbara pastoral workers strike, 1946–50 (Z522)
Aborigines – World Council of Churches (N94/837–844)
Aboriginals – leaflets, 1976–84 (N94/930, P94/54/1)
Aborigines, 1968–85 (N94/1416–1428)
Pamphlets,
1915–39 (N57/1292–1304)
Council
for Advancement of Aborigines – circulars (P14/13/20)
Aborigines – news cuttings, 1968–72 (P124/536)
Aboriginals,
1968 (P128/150)
Aborigines,
1964–65 (P120/983)
Pamphlets re Aboriginals, 1933–67 (Z267/1–2)
Press
cuttings re Aboriginals, 1946–76 (Z267/6)
Personal
file on Aborigines, 1940–55 (Z267/8)
SERIALS
Australian Abo Call, Nos 1–6, Aborigines Progressive Association, 1938 (S1149)
Aboriginal Affairs Information Paper, 1962–66 (S6)
Smoke Signals, Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait
Islanders, 1960–67 (S404)