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Perth Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Perth, Western Australia, 17 September 2023, 2023

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On 14 October 2023, Australians voted in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. This collection documents the "Perth Walk for Yes" event which started in Burswood Park and headed over the Matagarup Bridge to Victoria Gardens and shows the crowd, the march and speakers Ken Wyatt and Braden Hill, as well as other community leaders, representatives and supporters.

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Michael Terry collection of photographs of his expeditions and travels, 1914-1971

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Michael Terry was a surveyor, explorer and author. Collection includes images from his expeditions of Australia, as well as other images from his travel to India, Indonesia, Gibraltar, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Egypt.

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Papers of Anton Vroland, 1876-1974

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The papers include correspondence, notes, essays, addresses and publications relating to Vroland's educational reforms and teaching materials such as class notes, teaching aids and exam papers. The collection also contains a large amount of correspondence, reports, notes and photographs pertaining to Vroland and his wife's fight for the rights of Aboriginal people. Also included are papers concerned with the Australian Church, the New Education Fellowship, the United Nation's role in education, and the economic situation in the 1930s and 1940s in Australia.

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Papers of Bessie Rischbieth, 1900-1967

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Bessie Rischbieth was involved in women's rights movements from the beginning of the century, at local, national and international levels, and her papers record her involvement in many organizations, especially the Australian Federation of Women Voters, and with many different subjects up to her death in 1967. Of special interest is the collection of material on the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain between 1906 and 1928. The collection contains correspondence, reports and minutes of meetings, some photographs, newspaper cuttings and pamphlets. The different series relate to organisations and subjects, and the correspondence is to be found at the beginning of most series.

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Photographs of Sydney Opera House and National Parks around Australia by Lawrence Collings, 1983-1986

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Subjects include the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Uluru National Park N.T, Mungo National Park NSW, Hattah-Kulkyne National Park Victoria, Glen Innes NSW and Augusta WA.

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Papers of Lennard Bickel, 1909-1992

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This collection mainly comprises research material for, and drafts of, several books and journal and newspaper articles by Bickel. The papers also include correspondence, photographs, transcripts of interviews, reviews and published material.

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Len Dawson collection of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Charleville, Queensland, 1954-1957

Papers of Ronald Mendelsohn, 1937-1968

Papers of Sir Gordon Jackson, 1943-1990

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The collection includes correspondence, typescripts, bound copies of speeches, photographs, newsletters, cuttings, reports and printed material.

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Records of the Soroptimist Club of Canberra, 1955-1988

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Papers relating to the business management of the club. Records relating to fund raising and club activities. Minutes of meetings, reports and correspondence of the Coordinating Committee of Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand and for the conferences of the Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand. Reports and circulars of Soroptimist International Association. Federation of Soroptimist Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland. Correspondence and minutes of meetings of the Divisional Union of Soroptimist Clubs of A.C.T. and the Southern Highlands of N.S.W. Correspondence with specific overseas clubs. Also newsletters from other clubs. Records of communication with the various community organisations assisted by the Club. Biography/History The Soroptimist Club of Canberra was formed on 6 Sept. 1954. Its invited members are executive and professional business women giving service to the community. It is one of the four clubs of the Divisional Union of Soroptimist Clubs of the Australian Capital Territory and the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, whose records are also held.

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