Australian Aborigines Conference : sesqui-centenary Day of Mourning and Protest to be held in the Australian Hall, Sydney ... on Wednesday, 26th January 1938 (Australia Day) ... : Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend

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AUSTRALIAN  

Aborigines Conference  

SESQUI-CENTENARY  

Day of Mourning and Protest  

to be held in  

THE AUSTRALIAN HALL, SYDNEY  

(No. 148 Elizabeth Street hundred yards south of Liverpool Street)  

on  

WEDNESDAY, 26th JANUARY, 1938  

(AUSTRALIA DAY)  

The Conference will assemble at 10 o’clock in the morning.  

ABORIGINES AND PERSONS OF ABORIGINAL  

BLOOD ONLY ARE INVITED TO ATTEND  

The following Resolution will be moved:  

“WE, representing THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA, assembled in Conference at the Australian  

Hall, Sydney, on the 26th day of January, 1938, this being the 150th Anniversary of the whitemen’s  

seizure of our country, HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people by  

the whitemen during the past 150 years, AND WE APPEAL to the Australian Nation of today to  

make new laws for the education and care of Aborigines, and we ask for new policy which will raise  

our people to FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY”  

The above resolution will be debated and voted upon, as the sole business of the Conference, which  

will terminate at o'clock in the afternoon.  

TO ALL AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES PLEASE COME TO THIS  

CONFERENCE IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN ALSO SEND WORD BY  

LETTER TO NOTIFY US IF YOU CAN ATTEND  

Signed, for and on behalf of  

THE ABORIGINES PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION,  

J. T. PATTEN, President  

W. FERGUSON, Organising Secretary.  

Address: c/o. Box 1924KK, General Post Office, Sydney  

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Patten, J. T & Ferguson, W & Aborigines Progressive Association. (1938). Australian Aborigines Conference : sesqui-centenary Day of Mourning and Protest to be held in the Australian Hall, Sydney ... on Wednesday, 26th January 1938 (Australia Day) ... : Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend Retrieved April 12, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-348899812

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Patten, J. T, Ferguson, W and Aborigines Progressive Association. Australian Aborigines Conference : sesqui-centenary Day of Mourning and Protest to be held in the Australian Hall, Sydney ... on Wednesday, 26th January 1938 (Australia Day) ... : Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend Sydney: Aboriginal Progressive Association, 1938. Web. 12 April 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-348899812>

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Patten, J. T & Ferguson, W & Aborigines Progressive Association. 1938, Australian Aborigines Conference : sesqui-centenary Day of Mourning and Protest to be held in the Australian Hall, Sydney ... on Wednesday, 26th January 1938 (Australia Day) ... : Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend Aboriginal Progressive Association, Sydney viewed 12 April 2025 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-348899812

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