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New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Office. Location of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Office in greater Sydney. Location. 37 Cavendish Street, Stanmore, Inner West Council, New South Wales, Australia. Coordinates. 33°53′52″S 151°10′10″E. / 33.8977°S 151.1694°E / -33.8977; 151.1694. Built.
Stanmore, New South Wales. Stanmore is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia 6 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district. It is part of the local government area of the Inner West Council. It is known for its long strip of shops running along Parramatta Road (Great Western Highway).
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy has been redeveloped and reimagined since 1982, with the first Aboriginal Education Policy focusing on the appreciation of Aboriginal cultures and societies. [2] In 1988, a Commonwealth Government Task Force informed the development of the National Aboriginal Education Policy ...
Born May Lorna Miller of the Wongatha people, in Laverton, Western Australia, at the age of five she was removed to the Mount Margaret Aboriginal Mission. She later attended Perth Girls School. [1] In 1953, she received her Teacher's Certificate at Claremont Teachers College. She was the first known Aboriginal woman in Western Australia to ...
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), founded in Adelaide, South Australia, as the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) on 16 February 1958, was a civil rights organisation which campaigned for the welfare of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, and the first national body representing Aboriginal interests.
In the late 1950s, there was an increasing focus on the global need for anthropological research into 'disappearing cultures'. [1] [2] This trend was also emerging in Australia in the work of researchers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, [3] [4] leading to a proposal by W.C. Wentworth MP for the conception of an Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1959.
This is a list of indigenous rights organizations.Some of these organizations are members of other organizations listed in this article. Sometimes local organizations associated with particular groups of indigenous people will join in a regional or national organization, which in turn can join an even higher organization, along with other member supraorganizations.
Joy Williams was born Eileen Williams at the Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney on 3 September 1942. Shortly after her birth Joy was taken from her mother by the Aboriginal Welfare Board and sent to the Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home. At the age of six she was sent to the Lutanda Children's Home run by the Plymouth Brethren, first at ...