Aborigines Progressive Association

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Proclamation of the Day of Mourning
Not to be confused with Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association or New South Wales Aborigines Protection Association.

The Aborigines Progressive Association (APA

Aboriginal Australian rights organisation in New South Wales that was founded and run by William Ferguson and Jack Patten
from 1937 to 1944, and was then revived from 1963 until around 1970 by Herbert Groves.

First incarnation

The Aborigines Progressive Association (APA

north-east. Both wings of the APA were involved in political organisation, rallies, and protests in both Aboriginal communities and reserves and major NSW centres such as Sydney.[4] The Association was financed by the Sydney businessman William John Miles.[5]

In 1938 the APA organised the

Aborigines and to demand full citizenship and equal rights.[6] Ferguson, APA’s organising secretary, said of the planned national day of mourning: "The aborigines do not want protection... We have been protected for 150 years, and look what has become of us. Scientists have studied us and written books about us as though we were some strange curiosities, but they have not prevented us from contracting tuberculosis and other diseases, which have wiped us out in thousands."[7]

The APA was wound down in 1944.[8]

Second incarnation

The APA was revived in 1963[8] by Herbert Stanley "Bert" Groves,[9] who had in 1956 co-founded the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (AAF) with Pearl Gibbs and others.[10][11][a] Gibbs was also a co-founder of this APA, and other prominent people associated with it were Joyce Clague, Dulcie Flower, Harriet Ellis, Ray Peckham, Chicka Dixon and Ken Brindle.[8]

Groves strongly believed that Aboriginal people should control this new incarnation of the APA.[11]

From 1964 to 1970 the APA under Groves published a quarterly journal called Churinga as the official journal of the APA.

Alchuringa, published by Kevin Gilbert's short-lived Aboriginal National Theatre Foundation.[14]

Groves died on 28 December 1970, aged 63.[9]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Doug Nicholls and Charles Perkins. His wife was called Renata.[11]
  2. Churinga
    (Tjurunga) for the meaning of the word.

References

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  5. ^ Cunneen, Chris. "William John Miles (1871–1942)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  6. ^ "Australian Aborigines' League". Collaborating for Indigenous Rights. National Museum of Australia. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  7. ^ "BLACK MAN'S VIEWPOINT". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 13 November 1937. p. 15. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  8. ^ a b c "Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957-1973". Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  9. ^ a b Duncan, Alan T. (1996). "Herbert Stanley (Bert) Groves". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2 October 2022. This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, (Melbourne University Press), 1996
  10. ^ "Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship". A History of Aboriginal Sydney. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  11. ^
    doi:10.25904/1912/3292. Retrieved 2 October 2022. PDF
  12. Australian Aboriginal League
    float in the 1947 May Day procession. Identified, left to right: Miss Leila Lord, Mr Tasman Dohti (holding a sign which reads "Burn our welfare board"), Miss Alice Groves (holding a sign which reads "United war divided peace"), Miss Delys Cross, Mr Herbert Groves, wearing his Second World War uniform as protest; he served under the number NX200798 between 1943 and 1945 (holding a sign which reads "Free to fight but not to drink"), and Mr Athol Lester (holding a sign which reads "Our famous 1947 Australian All Blacks".)
  13. ^ Aborigines Progressive Association (1964), "Churinga" (catalogue entry), Trove, Breda Publications, retrieved 2 October 2022, Official journal of the Aborigines' Progressive Association. Journal Dates: No. 1 (1964)-no. 12 (May 1970)
  14. ^ National Aboriginal Theatre Foundation (Australia); Aboriginal Tourist and Economic Development Association (Australia) (1971), Alchuringa (catalogue entry), Breda Publications, retrieved 2 October 2022 – via Trove
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