Found inside – Page 59In light of the 1982 precedent, when Aboriginal political protest during the Commonwealth Games was brutally repressed by Queensland police, these proposals ... Outlines protest plans and Qld legislation for 1982 Commonwealth Games. Essay for a course in Political Science: Aborigines and Politics, at the Australian National University; analysis includes background to protest; mentions the National Aboriginal Conference (NAC), the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander ... Found inside... Gary Foley and other activists on urban Aboriginal protest. ... the Commonwealth Games protest in 1982, and more recently, the protests during the 1988 ... Based on his award-winning doctoral dissertation, Gary Foley chronicles the development of the Black Power Movement within the Australian Aboriginal community and the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy. Found inside – Page 36... the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. At demonstrations and public meetings, and via television current affairs shows and radio talk-back programs, ... Found inside – Page 206At the end of a four-day archery event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in ... New Zealand's participation in a large-scale boycott of the Games in protest of ... Found inside... to the 1982 commonwealth games by aboriginal land rights activists. ... issues being protested about would be ignored in favour of the style of protest. Found inside – Page 483This constitutes a part of a much longer "Statement of Protest" by Aborigines and their supporters — during the 1982 Commonwealth Games — against the racism ... Found inside – Page 267Many public protests for Aboriginal rights followed. ... editions]).9 The 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane precipitated demonstrations and rallies, ... Background, analysis, Aboriginal protest against 1982 Commonwealth Games, Brisbane; Black Protest Committee; formation; membership, activities. Found inside... the 1971 Springbok tour demonstrations, the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972, the Brisbane Commonwealth Games protest in 1982, and the protests during ... Found inside – Page 121During the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Brisbane, to protest against Queensland's treatment of Kooris ... Found inside – Page 27Commonwealth Writers ' Week , Brisbane , 1982 was was clear the issues were still there . ... Week associated with the Commonwealth ramifications of the festival , had got together Discussion then followed on when best to Games at Edmonton , a large if not ... Bonner of countries of the Commonwealth issue and their support for moves of protest . young aboriginal poet Lionel Fogarty's new produced . Found inside – Page 45... in press advertising alone.86 The 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane became ... the media initially viewed the Commonwealth Games protest as a threat ... Discussion of possible use of Commonwealth Games Act, 1982 to curb Aboriginal protest at 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Found inside – Page 113They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest of New Zealand's sporting contacts ... The 1982 Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Call for peaceful protest at Brisbane Commonwealth Games, August, 1982; reasons for protest; plight of Aborigines in Queensland. Found inside – Page 96Anonymous letters from people protesting rent and tax increases , perceived to be related to the hosting of the Cup ... of the Queensland 1982 Commonwealth Games Act meant that the only protest allowed during the Games , and the only ... Found inside – Page 2671982 Brisbane T:6 N:6 1 Malcolm Cooper and Barry Dagger ENG 2301 pts GR 2 Guy Lorion and Jean-Francois Senecal CAN 2279 3 Alister Allan and Bill MacNeil SCO ... Found inside – Page 245In 1982 , the Brisbane Commonwealth Games provided just such an international platform . Many protests and demonstrations were conducted during the games ... Found inside – Page 833... countries of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane , Australia . Earlier , almost all New Zealand athletes had boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in protest against the U.S.S.R.'s intervention in Afghanistan . Of even greater ... Found inside... 1971 Springbok tour demonstrations, the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972, the Commonwealth Games protest in 1982, and more recently the protests during ... Found inside... tent embassy (1972) and the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane (Foley.com). These games became a focal point for protest where demands for recognition ... Found inside – Page 228Similarly , at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane , Aboriginal groups conducted demonstrations and protest marches in order to highlight issues of social inequality internationally ( McGregor , 1984 ; Ryan , 1984 ; Sutton , 1984 ... Found inside – Page 118... as seen in 1982 when Aboriginal people mobilised in protest against the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane” A synopsis in this same catalogue lists featured ... Found inside – Page 262Her popularity is such that more Australians chose the 2000 Olympic Games 400m ... response to Indigenous protesters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.3 First, ... Found inside – Page 308... through New South Wales protesting discrepancies in living, education, ... organized large-scale protests during the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the ... Found inside – Page 64In Brisbane during the 1982 Commonwealth Games, for example, the Queensland government passed an act to keep the city "clean" of Aboriginal "dissidents," ... Found inside – Page 57Calls upon African Commonwealth nations to direct ( and canvass other Commonwealth nations in Asia and the Caribbean to do likewise ) ... in London ) for the exclusion of New Zealand from the Commonwealth Games 10 be held in Brisbane , Australia , in 1982 ; 7. ... should give rise to further protest by groups of New Zealanders , then this House calls for such protests to be undertaken in a lawful and ... Found inside – Page 343 ) 1982 and Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill ( No. 4 ) 1982 ] Employment and unemployment : GIETZELT , Senator Arthur Thomas , New South Wales : Aborigines : Land rights , Commonwealth Games protest , p.o. , 1448 , 1449 ... Found inside – Page 761It subsequently supported a 1981 World Council of Churches report criticising Australia ' s treatment of Aboriginal people ; the protest during the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane ; and the idea of a treaty . In 1983 – 84 it National ... Found inside – Page 113His intervention averted a major crisis and produced a well-attended 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games. Only two years later, and this time in protest of ... Found inside – Page 128The 1974 British Commonwealth Games were held in Christchurch, New Zealand. ... They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest of New Zealand's sporting ... Found inside – Page 65... by the Black Protest Committee during the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane , and to protest for Land Rights legislation ( Watson 1988 : 40 ) . How did one long and expensive party change a city forever? Effects of Land Act on Aboriginal and TSI Acts; provisions of the Land Act (Aboriginal and Islander Land Grants) Bill, 1982; protest at Commonwealth Games. Found inside – Page 176... had led to talk of boycotts of the 1974 and 1982 Commonwealth Games. ... Commonwealth Games Council were compelled to write a letter of protest to the ... Found inside... protest was the same as the right enjoyed by the rest of Australia. ... limiting public demonstrations at the time of the 1982 Commonwealth Games was ... Found inside – Page 103The full impact of the protest is arguably being demonstrated still yet today. ... to the large-scale protests that attended the 1982 Commonwealth Games in ... Found inside – Page 244This legislation, the Commonwealth Games Act 1982,2 was passed in May 1982 to come ... For the duration of the designated period of the games, protest was ... Found inside – Page 48... Johannes Bjelke - Petersen , boasted to reporters : “ They can protest until they're black in the face , but they won't get land rights . ” ' By the end of the decade leading up to the 1982 Commonwealth Games , what Lilla Watson describes as a ... Found inside – Page 236This culminated during the Brisbane Commonwealth Games of 1982, when protest mobilisation was officially equated with 'terror', and a Commonwealth Games Act ... Found inside – Page 165... and the ongoing Aboriginal land rights campaigns throughout the 19805, including the Commonwealth Games protest in 1982 and the protests during the 1988 ... Found inside – Page 17Myrna Greenfield LAND RIGHTS BEFORE GAMES Peaceful Protests for Justice CLAIM THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PROTEST ... Ms McConomy ' s 11 year old son Stephen died on April 19 1982 after being hit in the back of the head by a plastic bullet fired by a British ... also for the right to peaceful demonstrations during the recent Commonwealth Games in Brisbane , the Women ' s Landrights Solidarity ... Found inside – Page 24The Queensland Government has passed a Commonwealth Games Act which gives the police extraordinary powers to suppress protest . ... Aborigi - and a volunteer corps of 17 , 000 would By MAXIMILIAN WALSH nes will come to Brisbane to protest for be helping run the show . ... THE BULLETIN , SEPTEMBER 28 , 1982. Found inside – Page 23The friendly games? Politics, protest and Aboriginal rights at the XII Commonwealth Games, Brisbane 1982. In I. Warren (Ed.). Found insideBut the issue and its consequences in other areas , including the Commonwealth and Olympic Games were in the forefront of ... After National's win in that election , attributed by some to the government's refusal to give in to the protest , he may have changed his mind again . ... New Zealand's failure in 1982 to secure election to the UN Security Council was a direct consequence of the government's ... Found inside – Page 130Issues raised included the handling of the Commonwealth Games protests in 1982 - state legislation had restricted any protest activity, including banning ...