Aboriginal Working Group (AWG)
DESCRIPTION
SeriesAboriginal AffairsDate range1973-2006Description 15 boxes of material with a list of files of each box which is scanned and attached, as there are more files than listed on the box, the added ones are in lower case.
BOX 109
WRITTEN ARTICLES: including 'Comments on the Victorian Aboriginal Land Claim Bill 1983' by Keith Cole ' and 'Anglican ministry to the Aboriginal Community of Fitzroy' Greg Magee 1995 and some reproduction photos of Victorian Aborigines.
(box 1)
Miscellaneous correspondence and articles by and to Joy Sandefur
Miscellaneous correspondence and articles by and to Margaret Waterhouse
BROCHURES - IN HOUSE
MINUTES: 1995 ; 2000 - 2003 (unsorted in 2 folders)
'Guide to a season of listening' (2 copies)
AWG miscellaneous publications
DON'T (Defenders of Native Title)
BUDGET 2000 - 2002
Working Group on ABORIGINAL EVENTS /Matters (organized by the AWG) Including the visit by Bishop Jim Leftwich in 2002
BOX 110
WALK FOR RECONCILIATION. Also 'Reconciliation News' No. 1 June 2000, July 2001
RECONCILIATION SERVICE at St Pauls Cathedral.
PRAYER AND WORSHIP RESOURCES
LITURGICAL - VARIOUS
TRIBAL BOUNDARIES
ABORIGINAL ARTICLES. Newspaper articles sorted in to subjects. Kept in their original green folders.
1997 SYNOD
1993 and 1994 SYNOD PAPERS
PROPOSAL FOR A TASK GROUP OF GENERAL SYNOD ON RELATIONS WITH INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS.
(box 2)
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL ANGLICAN COUNCIL (NAAC) Parish contributions list, some minutes and 'Togetherness'. Also photographs of a meeting in Darwin in 1994. Most photos have names.
MINAJALKU CENTRE
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ANGLICAN COUNCIL (NATSIAC) correspondence photographs and a presentation with overhead slides.
BOX 111
MINAJALKU Aboriginal Corporation: MINUTES 1999, 2000 - 2002. Includes the Community Development Plan 2001 - 2005.
'Home - still waiting' - Report of the Minajalku Aboriginal Corporation into Aboriginal children and the churches in Victoria October 1997 63 p.
WORKING GROUP ON ABORIGINAL MATTERS (WGOAM) - minutes 2001 - 2002. Includes a copy of the trust document (The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne Aborigines Trust Fund)
Working Group - Review
Working Group - Vision
Working Group - Structural analysis
Working Group - Brochures, flyers
Working Group - Church Missionary Society (CMS) statement [Church Missionary Society Aboriginal Commission Report Final Form February 1984] and working Group response.
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - closure correspondence
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - closure 1992, the fight, re opened 1995.
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - Victorian Governments response
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - Primates letters (Keith Rayner)
'Newsnet' February 1993 ; May, June July 1993 ; June 1993 ; August, September, October 1993 ; December 1993 - January 1994 ; February - April 1994 ; No. 2 ; August, September, October ; No. 4 1994 ; February, March April 1995.
MOTIONS - OTHER SYNODS PRE 2000
Aboriginal Development Commission. Research into and Strategies for a Public Awareness Program. Final report 3 February 1984 104 p.
'Aboriginal Child Poverty' by Christine Choo. BSL 1990 126 p
BOX 112
Correspondence 1 including Social Responsibilities Commission Submission to the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families August 1996 11 p.
BRINGING THEM HOME - COMPENSATION FUND
WGOAM - 150th Diocesan birthday correspondence
INTER-CHURCH ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS CONSULTATIVE GROUP (IAACG) MINUTES: 1988 - 1992
MINAJALKU - meaning of
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES - CORRESPONDENCE Including the Address by Bishop Arthur Malcolm.
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - Registrar's (R F Crosbie) correspondence.
NATIVE TITLE AND MABO including Yorta Yorta
Victorian Land Titles Validation ACT 1993
Victorian Aboriginal Lands transfer Bill Including information on The Dooligar Justice Centre
Mothers Union correspondence with WGOAM
Victorian Council of Churches Commission on the gospel and our cultures 1993
WGOAM - Justice for Indigenous Australians 1996 - 1998
Partnerships and secular initiatives - friends and reconciliation (Pay the rent campaign)
(box 3)
VISIT OF ARTHUR MALCOLM TO VICTORIA
MUSEUM MATERIAL WESTERNPORT AREA
BACKGROUND INFORMATION, EDUCATION
BOX 115
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
HISTORY OF VICTORIAN ABORIGINES AND CHURCH RELATIONS
RACIAL VILIFICATION LEGISLATION
CODE OF RACE ETHICS
Correspondence 2
ABORIGINAL AWARENESS PROGRAM 1996
MINAJALKU 1995 - 1997 Correspondence
ECUMENICAL CENTRE OF KOORI MINISTRY - MINAJALKU 1992 - 1994
MARTUNG UPAH CONFERENCE RESPONSE 1993
CONFERENCE MATERIAL FROM AUGUST 1990 'Aboriginal spirituality past present and future'
REPORT ON National Anglican Care Organisations Network (NACON) 1992
ABORIGINAL EDUCATION 1991
ABORIGINAL EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP (AEF) 1990 - 1993
BRINGING THEM HOME and other correspondence.
ABORIGINAL TRUST FUND DOCUMENTS and register of assets.
boxes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are boxes of books. see attached list
BOX 116
Books which were kept are listed below
[box 4] 'Bora is like Church' by David Thompson, Australian Board of Missions, 1982 ; Charles Strong Memorial Trust 'A profile of good and bad..' Ronald M Berndt, 'Some aspects of Aboriginal religion' W E H Stanner ; 'Called to the Kulin' Bicentennial programme ; [box 8] St marks Review December 1978 ; Zadock Centre papers 1/10, 1/8, 1/7, 11, 18, S67, R23 ; 'Tibby Briar' Bush Aid society, 1989 ; [box 10] "For the record' James Boyce ; [box 7] all Keith Cole's book have been kept in Archives (books).
box 12
minutes 2005 - 2006
correspondence 3
'Being a neighbour' Social responsibilities Commission 100 p
'Intermission' Australian Board of Missions July 1995, July 1996, July 1997, February 1997, February 1998.
BOX 113
WORKING GROUP ON ABORIGINAL MATTERS (WGOAM) 'A little more than kin' by Diane Barwick (photocopy)
'Dreamings from the desert' by Donald Moffat
Photographs of the 1998 General Synod Reconciliation Service
Correspondence 4
InterChurch Aboriginal Affairs Consultative Group - Minutes 1988 - 1993
Aboriginals: including 'A survey by the Australian Board of Missions (ABM) of the state of development of Aboriginal and Islander ministries of the Anglican Church of Australia' January 1991
1995 "Follow up" of the 1983 'Survey on Diocesan Action on Aboriginal Matters' and the 'Survey..' by Trevor Hogan.
1983 'Survey on Diocesan Action on Aboriginal Matters'
"Inquiry into compensation for dispossession and dispersal of the Aboriginal People, Minutes of evidence" 9 August 1984 12 p
'The Aboriginalisation of the Church at Ngukurr' by Joy Sandefur July 1998 [compact edition] 165 p
'Aussie Anglican a study in Anglican identity' by R M Noone 1988, 36 p.
BOX 121
Lake Condah
Black and white photographs of Aborigines, possibly for Keith Cole's books. Some are reproductions from the State Library of Victoria's Photograph Collection and are copyright. And coloured photographs of an Aboriginal service at St Pauls cathedral with Trinity Grammar students.
Letter to Keith Rayner from the Prime Minister and cabinet about the Native Title Bill 1993
Miscellaneous publications: 'Justice Aboriginal Land rights... ' by John Harris 1987, 19p ; 'Aboriginal Land rights, missionary policy and the Gospel' by John Woodley nd, 9p ; 'Your church and land rights - discussion guide' nd 19p. ; 'Anglicans supporting Aborigines' nd 5p. ; speech notes for WGOAM [no author] 30 September 1996 9p ; minutes of the WGOAM 15 November 2005.
BOX 109
WRITTEN ARTICLES: including 'Comments on the Victorian Aboriginal Land Claim Bill 1983' by Keith Cole ' and 'Anglican ministry to the Aboriginal Community of Fitzroy' Greg Magee 1995 and some reproduction photos of Victorian Aborigines.
(box 1)
Miscellaneous correspondence and articles by and to Joy Sandefur
Miscellaneous correspondence and articles by and to Margaret Waterhouse
BROCHURES - IN HOUSE
MINUTES: 1995 ; 2000 - 2003 (unsorted in 2 folders)
'Guide to a season of listening' (2 copies)
AWG miscellaneous publications
DON'T (Defenders of Native Title)
BUDGET 2000 - 2002
Working Group on ABORIGINAL EVENTS /Matters (organized by the AWG) Including the visit by Bishop Jim Leftwich in 2002
BOX 110
WALK FOR RECONCILIATION. Also 'Reconciliation News' No. 1 June 2000, July 2001
RECONCILIATION SERVICE at St Pauls Cathedral.
PRAYER AND WORSHIP RESOURCES
LITURGICAL - VARIOUS
TRIBAL BOUNDARIES
ABORIGINAL ARTICLES. Newspaper articles sorted in to subjects. Kept in their original green folders.
1997 SYNOD
1993 and 1994 SYNOD PAPERS
PROPOSAL FOR A TASK GROUP OF GENERAL SYNOD ON RELATIONS WITH INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS.
(box 2)
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL ANGLICAN COUNCIL (NAAC) Parish contributions list, some minutes and 'Togetherness'. Also photographs of a meeting in Darwin in 1994. Most photos have names.
MINAJALKU CENTRE
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ANGLICAN COUNCIL (NATSIAC) correspondence photographs and a presentation with overhead slides.
BOX 111
MINAJALKU Aboriginal Corporation: MINUTES 1999, 2000 - 2002. Includes the Community Development Plan 2001 - 2005.
'Home - still waiting' - Report of the Minajalku Aboriginal Corporation into Aboriginal children and the churches in Victoria October 1997 63 p.
WORKING GROUP ON ABORIGINAL MATTERS (WGOAM) - minutes 2001 - 2002. Includes a copy of the trust document (The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne Aborigines Trust Fund)
Working Group - Review
Working Group - Vision
Working Group - Structural analysis
Working Group - Brochures, flyers
Working Group - Church Missionary Society (CMS) statement [Church Missionary Society Aboriginal Commission Report Final Form February 1984] and working Group response.
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - closure correspondence
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - closure 1992, the fight, re opened 1995.
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - Victorian Governments response
NORTHLAND SECONDARY COLLEGE - Primates letters (Keith Rayner)
'Newsnet' February 1993 ; May, June July 1993 ; June 1993 ; August, September, October 1993 ; December 1993 - January 1994 ; February - April 1994 ; No. 2 ; August, September, October ; No. 4 1994 ; February, March April 1995.
MOTIONS - OTHER SYNODS PRE 2000
Aboriginal Development Commission. Research into and Strategies for a Public Awareness Program. Final report 3 February 1984 104 p.
'Aboriginal Child Poverty' by Christine Choo. BSL 1990 126 p
BOX 112
Correspondence 1 including Social Responsibilities Commission Submission to the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families August 1996 11 p.
BRINGING THEM HOME - COMPENSATION FUND
WGOAM - 150th Diocesan birthday correspondence
INTER-CHURCH ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS CONSULTATIVE GROUP (IAACG) MINUTES: 1988 - 1992
MINAJALKU - meaning of
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES - CORRESPONDENCE Including the Address by Bishop Arthur Malcolm.
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - Registrar's (R F Crosbie) correspondence.
NATIVE TITLE AND MABO including Yorta Yorta
Victorian Land Titles Validation ACT 1993
Victorian Aboriginal Lands transfer Bill Including information on The Dooligar Justice Centre
Mothers Union correspondence with WGOAM
Victorian Council of Churches Commission on the gospel and our cultures 1993
WGOAM - Justice for Indigenous Australians 1996 - 1998
Partnerships and secular initiatives - friends and reconciliation (Pay the rent campaign)
(box 3)
VISIT OF ARTHUR MALCOLM TO VICTORIA
MUSEUM MATERIAL WESTERNPORT AREA
BACKGROUND INFORMATION, EDUCATION
BOX 115
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
HISTORY OF VICTORIAN ABORIGINES AND CHURCH RELATIONS
RACIAL VILIFICATION LEGISLATION
CODE OF RACE ETHICS
Correspondence 2
ABORIGINAL AWARENESS PROGRAM 1996
MINAJALKU 1995 - 1997 Correspondence
ECUMENICAL CENTRE OF KOORI MINISTRY - MINAJALKU 1992 - 1994
MARTUNG UPAH CONFERENCE RESPONSE 1993
CONFERENCE MATERIAL FROM AUGUST 1990 'Aboriginal spirituality past present and future'
REPORT ON National Anglican Care Organisations Network (NACON) 1992
ABORIGINAL EDUCATION 1991
ABORIGINAL EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP (AEF) 1990 - 1993
BRINGING THEM HOME and other correspondence.
ABORIGINAL TRUST FUND DOCUMENTS and register of assets.
boxes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are boxes of books. see attached list
BOX 116
Books which were kept are listed below
[box 4] 'Bora is like Church' by David Thompson, Australian Board of Missions, 1982 ; Charles Strong Memorial Trust 'A profile of good and bad..' Ronald M Berndt, 'Some aspects of Aboriginal religion' W E H Stanner ; 'Called to the Kulin' Bicentennial programme ; [box 8] St marks Review December 1978 ; Zadock Centre papers 1/10, 1/8, 1/7, 11, 18, S67, R23 ; 'Tibby Briar' Bush Aid society, 1989 ; [box 10] "For the record' James Boyce ; [box 7] all Keith Cole's book have been kept in Archives (books).
box 12
minutes 2005 - 2006
correspondence 3
'Being a neighbour' Social responsibilities Commission 100 p
'Intermission' Australian Board of Missions July 1995, July 1996, July 1997, February 1997, February 1998.
BOX 113
WORKING GROUP ON ABORIGINAL MATTERS (WGOAM) 'A little more than kin' by Diane Barwick (photocopy)
'Dreamings from the desert' by Donald Moffat
Photographs of the 1998 General Synod Reconciliation Service
Correspondence 4
InterChurch Aboriginal Affairs Consultative Group - Minutes 1988 - 1993
Aboriginals: including 'A survey by the Australian Board of Missions (ABM) of the state of development of Aboriginal and Islander ministries of the Anglican Church of Australia' January 1991
1995 "Follow up" of the 1983 'Survey on Diocesan Action on Aboriginal Matters' and the 'Survey..' by Trevor Hogan.
1983 'Survey on Diocesan Action on Aboriginal Matters'
"Inquiry into compensation for dispossession and dispersal of the Aboriginal People, Minutes of evidence" 9 August 1984 12 p
'The Aboriginalisation of the Church at Ngukurr' by Joy Sandefur July 1998 [compact edition] 165 p
'Aussie Anglican a study in Anglican identity' by R M Noone 1988, 36 p.
BOX 121
Lake Condah
Black and white photographs of Aborigines, possibly for Keith Cole's books. Some are reproductions from the State Library of Victoria's Photograph Collection and are copyright. And coloured photographs of an Aboriginal service at St Pauls cathedral with Trinity Grammar students.
Letter to Keith Rayner from the Prime Minister and cabinet about the Native Title Bill 1993
Miscellaneous publications: 'Justice Aboriginal Land rights... ' by John Harris 1987, 19p ; 'Aboriginal Land rights, missionary policy and the Gospel' by John Woodley nd, 9p ; 'Your church and land rights - discussion guide' nd 19p. ; 'Anglicans supporting Aborigines' nd 5p. ; speech notes for WGOAM [no author] 30 September 1996 9p ; minutes of the WGOAM 15 November 2005.
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NamesCole, KeithSandefur, JoyWaterhouse, MargaretRayner, KeithCrosbie, Ronald
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Accession2013-2
Aboriginal Working Group (AWG). Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, accessed 21/09/2026, https://archivesandlibrary.melbourneanglican.org.au/nodes/view/18754