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1930 - North West - view
throwing boomerangs at the old “Koala Park” paddocks
1930 - North West - view
BHP in Newcastle/Hunter Valley attracted “lots of mobs” to the region by making many industrial jobs available and paying equal wages to Aboriginal workers
1930 - North West - view
The number of Aboriginal people living on the government reserve at Purfleet increases dramatically during the 1930s
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 - South Coastal - view
Land Rights
1935 - South Coastal - view
landlords evicting tenants
1935 - North West - view
publishes a hymn book comprising hymns composed by “native workers
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”
1937 - North West - view
Patten assembles an alliance of activists in the north-east. Both wings of the APA are involved in political organisation, rallies, and protests in Aboriginal communities and reserves and major NSW centres
1937 - North West - view
Aboriginal people and deplorable conditions on Reserves. The APA follows on with a meeting called the Day of Mourning held at Australia Hall in Sydney on Australia Day 1938 to protest against 150 years of European settlement
1937 - North West - view
William Cooper forwards his petition for Aboriginal representation in parliament, citizenship and land rights to Prime Minister Lyons for passing to King George V