Assimilation in NSW 1952 - 1975


Menzies monsters black kids - 1958

Items of Interest from NSW Aborigines Welfare Board's Magazine "Dawn"

Published from 1952 to 1975, Dawn was the assimilationist propaganda magazine produced by the NSW Aborigines Protection Board (later the Aborigines Welfare Board). It has been described as 'a patronising journal...it echoed 86 years of APB-AWB paternalism.'

It was distributed to all NSW Aboriginal Stations and Reserves, where it was avidly read by Aboriginal people starved of information about their friends and kin. Some 50 years later its pages make fascinating reading as we illustrate with the following index of items of indigenous history found in Dawn.

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Index
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First Edition of Dawn - a new magazine for the Aboriginal people of NSW - January 1952
Members of the Aborigines Welfare Board - 1952
"The King is Dead...Long Live the Queen!" - February 1952
"Our Singing Ambassador - Harold Blair - March 1952
Harry Penrith - Lifesaver - February 1953
First Indigenous Teacher - February 1953
"A Citizen Must Be Loyal - Patriotism has no colourline..." - 1953
Irwin Lewis - One of the first indigenous university students - November 1957
PM "Pig Iron Bob" Menzies terrifies Aboriginal children on cover of "Dawn" - August 1958
Paul Coe sneaks into the footy - April 1959
Jimmy Little's career takes off - 1959
Article by Pastor Doug Nicholls - December 1959
Jimmy Little plays NAIDOC - 1962
Gary Williams enters Sydney University - May 1963
Police Scholarship to Des Williams - May 1963
Harry Penrith - Best and Fairest - November 1963
Commonwealth / State Government Conference Reaffirms Policy of Assimilation - November 1963
Paul Coe Wins High School Scholarship - December 1963
Bill Onus and 50,000 Boomerangs - December 1963
Aboriginal Tenor Harold Blair to enter Politics - January 1964
Michael Bryant - Aboriginal Teacher - March 1964
Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs Begins Welfare Programs in Sydney - September 1964
Cowra Girl wins coveted award - December 1964
Special on Merv Bishop - First Aboriginal Professional Photographer - February 1965
Gary Williams Appointed Tipstaff to NSW Supreme Court Judge - June 1965
Isobel Coe Represents NSW in School Basketball - July 1965
Harry Penrith - A Personality and a Purpose - July 1965
Paul Coe and Lyall Munro Jnr make news in their youth - January/March 1966
Charles Perkins graduates from Sydney University - July 1966
Tribute to Ron Richards - February 1967
Friends Helped Lyn Succeed - May 1967
First All-Aboriginal Lifesaving Squad - April 1968
Harry Mumbler Holidays in Sydney - April 1968
Paul Coe - elected Prefect - June 1968
Prime Minister John Gorton speaks on Aboriginal Affairs - October 1968
Sydney Aborigine wins international film role - January 1969
A 1970 interview with the legendary Aboriginal Rights advocate, Eileen Lester - June 1970
The famous Redfern All Blacks - story by Ken Brindle - June 1970
A 1970 article by Aboriginal Rights advocate, Ken Brindle - August 1970
A 1970 interview with Aboriginal Rights advocate, Bert Groves - August 1970
First Aboriginal Community-controlled Medical Service - Redfern - November 1971
Brian Syron - Aboriginal Actor Makes Good - April 1972
Aboriginal Actor Bob Maza - May 1972
Aboriginal Actor Jack Charles - May 1972
National Black Theatre production - "Basically Black" - December 1972
The Redfern Aboriginal Breakfast Program - May/December 1972
Black Theatre in NSW - September 1973
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