Since Section 70 had stipulated that Aboriginal funds be administered by a Protection Board answerable to the Imperial rather than the colonial government, McLeod insisted that payment of one per cent of state revenue, with arrears, be paid into a fund beyond the reach of parliament, to be administered by Aboriginal people. The call for Aboriginal control of Aboriginal funding was a radical idea at the time.
The Call for Aboriginal Control of Funding
Citation
Don McLeod to J.J. (Jack) Brady, 31 January 1957, SROWA, 1956/0084/26-28.
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Repeal of Section 70 Caused Unjust Conditions for Aboriginal People
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On the eve of the strike in 1946, McLeod referred to the repeal of Section 70 as the root cause of unjust conditions that Aboriginal people were no longer prepared to tolerate, a position that the group continued to maintain in the years that followed.
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