Section 70 was linked to the group’s demand for social service benefits and also their right to education, as in this letter from Mitchell to Minister for Native Affairs, Bill Hegney.
Section 70 and Social Service Benefits
Citation
Ernie Mitchell to Bill Hegney, 30 March 1954, SROWA, 1953/0127/144-45.
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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.
Cooperative Group Hopes to Petition Queen Elizabeth
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Have the Natives of W.A. Been the Victims of a Confidence Trick
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The Call for Aboriginal Control of Funding
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McLeod Discusses Section 70 with Anti-Slavery Society
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