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Faith Bandler (1918 – ), an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage, is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Australian label South Sea Islanders refers to the Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific: Melanesia: mainly the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides) Polynesia and Micronesia: the Loyalty Islands, Samoa, Kiribati and Tuvalu) who were recruited (some by kidnapping or... The Indigenous Australians are the first inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands, continuing their presence during European settlement. ... The referendum of 27 May 1967 approved two amendments to the Australian constitution relating to Aboriginal people. ...

Bandler was born Faith Mussing in Tumbulgum, New South Wales, in 1918. Her father, Peter Mussing, had been blackbirded from Ambrym Island, part of Vanuatu, in 1883, at the age of about twelve. He was then sent to Mackay, Queensland before being sent to work on a sugar cane plantation. He later escaped and married Bandler's mother, a Scottish-Indian woman from New South Wales. Bandler cites stories of her father's harsh experience as a slave labourer as a strong motivation for her activism.^[1] Bandler grew up with her family on a farm near Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Her father died in 1924, when Bandler was just five years old. In 1934, Bandler left school and moved to Sydney, where she worked as a dressmaker's apprentice. Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Blackbirding refers to the recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work on plantations, particularly sugar cane plantations. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Mackay (21Â°08â€² S 149Â°11â€² E, pop. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 kmÂ² 1. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Murwillumbah is a town of approximately 10,000 people in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and with a population of over four million people is the most populous city in Australia. ...

During World War II, Bandler and her sister Cath served in the Australian Women's Land Army, working on fruit farms. Bandler and other Indigenous workers recieved less pay than white workers, and after being discharged in 1945, she started to campaign for equal pay for Indigenous workers. After the war, Bandler moved to the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross. In 1952, she married Hans Bandler, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, Austria. During the war, Hans had been interred in the Nazi labor camps. The couple had a daughter, Lilon, born in 1954, and an adopted Aboriginal Australian son. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945. ... The Womens Land Army was an organisation created in World War II in the UK to work in agriculture. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kings Cross is a former suburb that is now an inner-city locality of Sydney. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viËn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: BÃ©cs, Czech: VÃdeÅˆ, Slovak: ViedeÅˆ, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: BeÄ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in penal labor. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ...

In 1956, Bandler became a full-time activist, becoming involved in the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), which was formed in 1957. During this period, Bandler worked with her mentors Pearl Gibbs and Jessie Street. As general secretary of FCAATSI, Bandler led the campaign for a constitutional referendum to remove discriminatory provisions from the Constitution of Australia. The campaign, which included several massive petitions and hundreds of public meetings arranged by Bandler, resulted in the 1967 referendum being put to the people by the Holt government. The referendum succeeded in all six states, attracting nearly 91% support across the country, the highest amount of support for any referendum before or since. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pearl Gibbs (1901 â€” 1983) was an Aboriginal Australian activist, and the most prominent female activist within the Aboriginal movement in the early 20th century. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... In Australia, referendums are nationwide polls held to approve government-proposed changes to the Australian constitution. ... The Constitution of Australia consists of a number of documents. ... The referendum of 27 May 1967 approved two amendments to the Australian constitution relating to Aboriginal people. ... Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 - 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 - 1967, now best remembered for the bizarre circumstances of his death. ... Australia, having a federal system of government, is divided into states and territories. ...

In 1974, Bandler started working on four books, two histories of the 1967 referendum, an account of her brother's life in New South Wales, and a novel about her father's experience of blackbirding in Queensland. Beginning in 1974, she also started campaigning for the rights of South Sea Islander Australians. According to Bandler's biographer, feminist writer and historian Marilyn Lake, this campaign was more challenging than the FCAATSI campaign for the 1967 referendum, since Bandler was fighting on two fronts. Not only was she battling historians who insisted that the blackbirded South Sea Islanders were actually voluntary indentured servants, but she was also to some extent ostracised by Indigenous Australians in the Australian civil rights movement, due to the increasing influence of separatist Black Power ideology.^[2] In 1975, Bandler visited Ambryn Island, from where her father had been kidnapped 92 years before. Throughout the 1970s, Bandler was also a prominent member of the Women's Electoral Lobby in New South Wales. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... An indentured servant is an unfree labourer under contract to work (for a specified amount of time) for another person or a company/corporation, often without any monetary pay, but in exchange for accommodation, food, other essentials, training, or passage to a new country. ... Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) showing the Black Power salute in the 1968 Summer Olympics Black Power has been described as an ideal which describes the aspiration of many people of varying degrees of African descent for recognition of their collective identity based on skin colour and what... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

Bandler was awarded an honorary doctorate from Macquarie University in 1994. In 1997, Bandler was named as one of the 100 inaugural Australian Living Treasures by the National Trust of Australia. Marilyn Lake's biography of Bandler, entitled Faith,^[3] was published in 2002. An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is an extra-ordinary academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... Macquarie University is an Australian university located in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park, although many mistakenly identify it as being located in the adjacent suburb of North Ryde. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Australian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. ... The National Trust of Australia is a community-based, non-government organisation, committed to promoting and conserving Australias indigenous, natural and historic heritage through its advocacy work and its custodianship of heritage places and objects. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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