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Organisation Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (1925 - 1927)
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- 1925
- To
- 1927
- Categories
- Advocacy Body and Stolen Generations
- Alternative Names
- AAPA
Summary
The Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA) was formed in New South Wales in 1925, under the leadership of C.F. (Fred) Maynard. Mrs Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton, a non-Aboriginal woman, was secretary.
The group demanded children no longer be separated from their families or indentured as domestics and menial labourers, and should have access to public schools. It protested the revocation of north-coast farming reserves; advocated that all Aboriginal families should receive inalienable grants of farming land within their traditional country and that Aborigines should control any administrative body affecting their lives.
Details
Members of the association made lengthy organizing trips; meetings in coastal towns attracted numerous Aborigines. With Jane Duren, an Aboriginal leader from Batemans Bay, Maynard participated in debates with missionaries and public figures who were proposing changes to the administration of Aboriginal affairs. He wrote to Aborigines throughout the State who had been injured by the board's policies, such as young girls who had been raped while indentured.
The AAPA was dissolved in 1927, but Maynard continued to work until the Depression and was an important advocate for the rights of his people.
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Related Entries
Publications
Books
- Goodall, Heather, Invasion to Embassy: land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972, 2nd edn, Sydney University Press (originally published Allen & Unwin, 1996), Sydney, 2008, 505 pp. Details
Online Resources
- Goodall, Heather, 'Maynard, Charles Frederick (Fred) (1879-1946)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Melbourne University Press, 2000, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/maynard-charles-frederick-fred-11095. Details
- Pollock, Zoe, 'Australian Aborigines Progressive Association', in Dictionary of Sydney, Dictionary of Sydney Trust, 2008, http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/australian_aborigines_progressive_association. Details
- Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/DOCSWR/_assets/main/documents/connectkin_guide.pdf. Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Goodall, Heather, 'Maynard, Charles Frederick (Fred) (1879-1946)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Melbourne University Press, 2000, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/maynard-charles-frederick-fred-11095; Goodall, Heather, Invasion to Embassy: land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972, 2nd edn, Sydney University Press (originally published Allen & Unwin, 1996), Sydney, 2008, 505 pp; Pollock, Zoe, 'Australian Aborigines Progressive Association', in Dictionary of Sydney, Dictionary of Sydney Trust, 2008, http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/australian_aborigines_progressive_association.
Prepared by: Naomi Parry
Created: 21 February 2011, Last modified: 18 June 2012
Last updated: 26 April 2013
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