Abstract
Walking along a busy city street in Sydney one day in 1937, Mrs Pearl Gibbs, one of the leading forces of the recently established all-Aboriginal organization, the Aborigines Progressive Association, ran into two girls she knew. They were on their way to a tea-party, hosted by a white woman, a ‘Mrs Strack’. Pearl had just returned from Brewarrina Aboriginal Station in western NSW, where she had been collecting evidence of the Board manager’s son’s sexual assaults on young women in the dormitory there. Intrigued by what the two girls told her, the older woman accompanied them to the gathering where she met Ming, and found, in some respects, a kindred spirit.
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Notes
Jack Horner, Bill Ferguson: Fighter for Aboriginal Freedom (Canberra: J. Horner, 1994), 106–7.
Quoted in Stephanie Gilbert, ‘“Never forgotten”, Pearl Gibbs (Gambarni)’, Anna Cole, Victoria Haskins and Fiona Paisley eds, Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005), 106.
Jessie Street and Ruth Emerson Curtis, ‘Australia’s Helpless Housewives’, script of radio broadcast play, 15 April 1937: UAW.
Faith Bandler, ‘Birth of the Fellowship’, in Faith Bandler and Len Fox, eds, The Time was Ripe: A History of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (1956–69) (Chippendale: Alternative Publishing Co-operative, 1983), 3.
Extracts reproduced in Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 81, 83, 87–8.
M. M. Bennett, Human Rights for Australian Aborigines: How Can They Learn without a Teacher? (Brisbane: 1951), 34–51; idem, The Australian Aboriginal as a Human Being (London: Aiston Rivers Ltd, 1930), 121–2; Bennett to J. K. S., 29 May 1938: JKS.
Quoted in Carla Hankins, ‘The Missing Links: Cultural Genocide through the Abduction of Female Aboriginal Children from their Families and their Training for Domestic Service, 1883–1969’, unpublished BA (Hons) thesis, UNSW(1982), 4.3.10.
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Haskins, V.K. (2005). Just ordinary justice. In: One Bright Spot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510593_15
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