Aboriginal Treaty Committee

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The Aboriginal Treaty Committee, chaired by Nugget Coombs, was set up in 1979 and ran until 1983. Its aim was to promote the idea of a Treaty amongst non-Indigenous Australians. Stuart Harris and Judith Wright both wrote books on behalf of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, and Mildred Kirk wrote a series of pamphlets on land rights for the Aboriginal Treaty Committee. These are also reproduced here.

"We call for a Treaty within Australia, between Australians" Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Advertisement, National Times, 25 August 1979, p.13
Letter to AIAS from Aboriginal Treaty Committee 16/8/79 advising of setting up of Committee
Advertisement by Aboriginal Treaty Committee 1979 requesting donations
"Aboriginal Treaty Committee Progress Report". Aboriginal Treaty Committee. National Times 1/12/79, p19
Aboriginal Treaty Committee Newsletter No. 1, May 1980
"Artists rally to raise money" and "What we plan to do" Aboriginal Treaty News No. 1.
"WCIP Canberra Meeting" Aboriginal Treaty News No. 2.
"ATC Seminars" Aboriginal Treaty News No. 2.
"Support a Treaty with Aboriginal Australians" Aboriginal Treaty Committee c. 12/11/80
Media Peace Prize, 1980
"The Aboriginal Treaty Committee: should we continue?" Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Aboriginal Treaty News No. 4
"A message to Aboriginal Treaty Committee supporters." By H. C.Coombs, Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 5
Preliminary findings of Makarrata Research." Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 5.
"ATC Book Club" Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 6.
"Card Order Form" Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 6.
"Poll will be crucial for Aborigines" Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 7.
Letter to AIAS Principal re ending of Committee and using AIAS as a base for further publications by H. C. Coombs
Letter to AIAS Principal re use of room to write "We call for a Treaty" by Judith Wright 28/3/83
"The future of the committee." By H. C. Coombs Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 8
"A final but hopeful message: Dr Coombs on the present and future." Aboriginal Treaty News No. 9
"A compact or "makarrata" examined" Aboriginal Treaty Committee. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9.
"You can't play with her. She's black" by Judith Wright McKinney.Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9.
"How Professor Bill Stanner recruited a Canadian" by Dianne Barwick. Aboriginal Treaty News 9.
"Conditions before talks" by Peter Read. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9.
"A pamphleteer confesses" by Mildred Kirk, Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9.
"You, Dymphna, will organise ..." by Dymphna Clark Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9.
"Justice denied" by Hugh Littlewood, Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9
"No security in Acts of Parliament" by Stewart Harris. Aboriginal Treaty News. No. 9
"It's coming yet: an Aboriginal treaty within Australia between Australians" by Stewart Harris. Canberra: Australian Aboriginal Treaty Committee, 1979
"We call for a treaty" by Judith Wright. Sydney, Fontana 1985
"Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Canberra 1981
"Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Canberra 1981
"The Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Bill 1981: what it means" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Canberra 1981
"Land rights: the position in Western Australia" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Canberra 1981
"Queensland land rights" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Canberra 1981
"Land rights for Victorian Aborigines" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Canberra 1981
"Land rights in Tasmania" Aboriginal Treaty Committee, , Canberra 1981