Many cuttings and photocopies re Aboriginal rights and the movement for a treaty

Containers:

Box 47

Component identifier:

File 353-360

Content Summary:

Photocopied papers including court transcripts re a jailed Aboriginal elder, Denis Walker. Two letters from Susan Ryan and a copy of her address to International PEN, 1988. Copies of seminar papers by Judith Wright and others (eg G. S. Lester, R. Falk, V.G. Venturini, Peter Bayne, Henry Reynolds, Penny Figgis) on human rights issues, especially concerning Aborigines. (Most material in this box is photocopied.)

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired from Judith Wright in a number of instalments, the first of which was received in 1978. In 2002 and 2005, further papers were acquired from Wright's daughter, Meredith McKinney. In 2005, a small consignment of papers, consisting of autobiographical material given to Patricia Clarke by Wright in 2000, was received from Patricia Clarke.

Names:

Judith Wright

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