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Government reception at the Lodge during National Aborigines Week
Identifier
JACKOMOS.A06.BW-N04416_07A
Place
Canberra, A.C.T.
Date
1984
Notes
Pictured: Lois O'Donoghue (Chairman of AHL [Aboriginal Hostels Limited]); Bob Hawke (Prime Minister); Clyde Holding (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs); and Merle Jackomos (Director of AHL)
Dignitaries at the opening of the AAL [Aborigines Advancement League] Centre
Identifier
JACKOMOS.A06.BW-N04416_08A
Place
Thornbury, Vic.
Date
1 December 1982
Notes
Pictured: John Cain, Premier of Victoria; Sir Douglas Nicholls; Ian Wilson, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; Gordon Bryant, former Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the first president of the Aborigines Advancement League
(Left to right) Jock Austin; Terry Kapeen; ?; Syd Jackson; Charles Perkins; Lionel Rose; Bruce McGuiness; Alma Thorpe; Allan Brown; Glenise Thorpe; ?; Graham Austin; Maurice Rioli
Alf Morgon (born c1854), aged 13, in school uniform of Reserve School
Identifier
JACKOMOS.A06.BW-N04416_14A
Place
Coranderrk, Vic.
Date
c1866
Notes
In his early twenties, Alf Morgon was prominent in a protest movement to improve conditions at Coranderrk, which almost led to the abolition of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (the equivalent of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs)
