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MS 2995

Papers of Jack Waterford



ACCESS

Open access for reading. Copying permitted for private study [Access code R1 C1a].

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Date range: 1973-1982

Extent:  .72 metres (4 boxes)

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

John (Jack) Edward O'Brien Waterford was born in Coonamble, NSW on 12 February 1952. He was educated at St Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill, Sydney and later graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws. He joined the staff of the Canberra Times in 1972 and from 1973 has worked as a journalist with that newspaper.

From 1977-79 he took leave of absence from The Canberra Times to work with the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, and later as researcher and report-writer for the National Trachoma and Eye Health Programme.

Since 1972 Waterford has written extensively on Australian Indigenous issues.  For a listing of this material held by AIATSIS Library see the Mura® online catalogue.

He was appointed Editor of the Canberra Times in 1995.

Reference:

Who's who in Australia 2000, Melbourne, Information Australia, 1999

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SERIES LIST

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SERIES DESCRIPTION

Health

Item  

1

Regional health services.

2

Health correspondence, 1977-1982

3

Health general. Comprises news releases and accounts of general ill health among Aboriginal Australians

4

National Trachoma and Eye Health Programme. Telexes, correspondence, minutes of meetings (1979) and an interview with Jimmy Lester, 1980

5

National Trachoma and Eye Health Programme draft report. Incomplete

6

Statistics and demographic findings

7

Papers written by Jack Waterford on Aboriginal health with hand-written corrections and several pages of notes

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Social welfare

Item

 

8

Housing. Includes correspondence from Beagle Bay, copy of 'Community housing services charges.  D.A.A.1977', report on Wattie Creek and media releases from Aboriginal Hostels Ltd.

9

Employment

10

Education

11

Culture/language

12

Community relations. Mainly press releases by Australian Association of Social Workers 1975, Law Reform Commission 1977 and Human Rights Commission.  Also some correspondence

13

Alcohol and drugs. Includes Glen Pines report; copy of Neville Perkins re. Glen Helen Lodge; and comments by Tangentyere Council on the Northern Territory Government's new ‘grog’ laws

14

Aboriginal Communities. Includes articles on the bombing of Quail Island, and telexes from Shorty O'Neill, Palm Island, Myrna Jerome, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Yarrabah Community, Kalano Farm, and Rachel Cummins

15

Legal Aid. Includes notes in support of application for legal aid in the Huckitta Appeal and associated correspondence; printout of story on Huckitta murder, press releases by the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (C.A.A.L.A.S.) re police brutality, 1980; and 1976 report on legal aid services to Indigenous Australians

16

'Utopia'. Handwritten pages kept by Peter Murphy referring to Alliwarra men, n.d.

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Land rights

Item

 

17

Treaty. Includes draft private members bill on land rights in Western Australia with notes from Dr H.C. Coombs and Professor C.D. Rowley

18

Land Councils, 1977-1982. Includes papers, press releases and telexes from North Queensland Land Council, Kimberley Land Council, Victorian Aboriginal Land Council and Federation of Land Councils

19

Australian Council of Churches. Material on general support for land rights including opinions on land Acts by heads of churches, and Australian Council of Churches newsletters

20

Commonwealth Games protest. Includes press releases by Aboriginal organisations, and policy statement by the Black Protest Committee

21

Northern Territory, 1976-82. Includes statement by The Hon. E.G. Whitlam, 1976, entitled 'Aboriginal land rights in jeopardy'; statements by Aboriginal Land Commissioner; press statements on the Finnis River land claim; and media releases by Australian Mining Industry Council and others

22

Queensland, 1975-82. Includes material on the Aurukun and Mornington Island dispute; statements by I. Vines, Aurukun Council and supporting correspondence from various Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian groups; and press releases from the National Aboriginal Congress and others

23

Western Australia, 1975-82. Includes material on 'Noonkembah' and Swan River communities

24

General. Mainly press statements/releases and newsletters on Indigenous issues relating to the states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, 1976-82. Also includes first draft of ‘Proposed policy guidelines for land acquisition’, written by Jack Waterford, and ‘History of land claims by Tasmanian Aborigines’, by Michael Mansell

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Government departments

Item

 

25

Media releases on Aboriginal health issues, 1973-81

26

Media releases on housing, employment, and community relations, 1978-82. Incomplete

27

Media releases on land rights and mining

28

Ministerial correspondence - Senator Peter Baume, 1980 (Incomplete); January-March 1981

29

Ministerial correspondence - Senator Peter Baume, April-June 1981

30

Ministerial correspondence - Senator Peter Baume, July-December 1981

31

Ministerial correspondence - Senator Peter Baume and Ian Wilson, January-December 1982

32

Miscellaneous. Includes material on land rights/mining, housing, employment, general, 1971-81

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Department of Aboriginal Affairs – Community profiles

Copy of profile questionnaire, 1979

Copies of community profiles (approx. 100) from all states, except Tasmania, 1976 and 1977

1 box

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BOX LIST

Box

Series

Items

1

Health

1-7

 

Social welfare

8-16

2

Land rights

17-24

3

Government departments

25-32

4

Department of Aboriginal Affairs Community profiles

 

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Guide compiled by J. Seccombe 2001. Updated January 2004