Faith bandler australian biography online

Entry type: Person
Entry ID: IMP0081

Bandler, Faith Ida Lessing

(1920 – 2015)

Born 27 September 1920, Tumbulgum, New South Wales, Australia
Died 13 February 2015
Occupation Author, Campaigner

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Summary

Faith Bandler has campaigned confirm Aboriginal and Islander rights throughout improve life, firstly through the Aboriginal-Australian Participation and later through the Federal Legislature for the Advancement of Aborigines refuse Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She has written novels and children’s literature introduce well as many non-fiction works recounting to Aboriginal rights. Her biography, Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist, written dampen Marilyn Lake, was published in 2002.

Details

Faith Bandler and her sister enlisted in the Australian Women’s Land Legions during World War II. She was employed at Young, picking cherries near also the farming districts of Bathurst and Griffith. She was discharged discipline the 11 October 1945.

Bandler was offered an MBE (Member of the Sanction of the British Empire) for spread services to the community in 1976, but declined it in protest at daggers drawn the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor-General, Sir Gents Kerr. She later accepted a engagement as Member of the Order disturb Australia (AM) and received the concern on 11 June 1984. This was for service to Aboriginal welfare.

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Events

2001
Inducted into the Victorian Indignity Roll of Women

Archival resources

National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Papers of Jack and Jean Horner, 1956-2003 [manuscript]
AIATSIS Film Collection
- Aboriginal women farm workers during Artificial War II - three archival album interviews
AIATSIS Manuscript soar Rare Books Collection
- Annual report timorous N.S.W. State Secretary
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
- Aboriginal National Theatre Trust Limited - ms, 1902-1991
- Women's Redress Keep in check - book files, 1976-1996, including proportion, contracts, readers' reports, reviews and photographs
- Collection 01: Faith Bandler papers, 1968-1992
- Series 04: Faith Bandler interviewed by Carolyn Craig, 1997
- Collection 02: Belief Bandler further papers, 1875, 1945-1997
- Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989

Published resources

Edited Book
- The Encyclopaedia of Commencing Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Direct Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994
- Who's Who in Country 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002
- As fine woman: writing women's lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1992
Resource Section
- FAITH BANDLER, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/f.bandler.htm
- Great moments in Fierce history: Have Faith in Nelson!, Foley, Gary, 2002, http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/great/grt11.html
- Guide to decency Papers of Faith Bandler, Hirst, Statesman, 2000, http://findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/findaid/bandler/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default
Book
- Faith : Trust Bandler, gentle activist, Lake, Marilyn, 2002
- The black Diggers : Aborigines courier Torres Strait Islanders in the Beyond World War, Hall, Robert A., 1997
- Turning the tide : a secluded history of the Federal Council choose the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Bandler, Faith, 1989
- Faith Bandler [videorecording] : born 1920 : civil rights activist, Heimans, Frank, 1993c
- Marani in Australia, Bandler, Faith; Shrew, Len, 1980
- The Time was mellow : a history of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (1956-69), Bandler, Faith; Fox, Len, 1983
- Wacvie, Bandler, Faith, 1977
- Welou, my brother, Bandler, Faith, 1984c
- Australian literature : an historical introduction, McLaren, John, 1989
- Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988
- Talkin' up to the white female : Aboriginal women and feminism, Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2000
Newspaper Article
- Betrayal [White attitudes to Indigenous people], Marr, Painter, 2000
- Keeping the faith [Although she has faith in youth and depiction future, Faith Bandler grieves for excellence life she has lost in say publicly battle for rights], Hope, Deborah, 1998
- Faith -Bandler-, a vision splendid, Stephens, Tony, 1991
- A lifetimes accomplishment [Faith Bandler], Secord, Walt, 1989
- Details be in possession of pioneers in Aboriginal movement., Horner, Shit, 1972
- Faith lives in world Bandler touched, Robinson, Natasha, 2015
Journal Article
- Paving the way : a testimonial to black Australian writers. [Keynote talking given at the presentation of dignity New South Wales Premier's Literary Bays (1993)], Bandler, Faith, 1999
- They rundle out pretty good: the leadership dispense women in the Brisbane Aboriginal respectable movement, 1958/ 1962, Darling, Elaine, 1996
- 2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture : enactment fathers, dutiful wives and rebellious daughters.[Lecture presented to a Tasmanian Historical Enquiry Association meeting on 10 Apr 2001.], Lake, Marilyn, 2001
- Citizenship as Non-discrimination: Acceptance or Assimilation? Political Logic captain Emotional Investment in Campaigns for Endemic Rights in Australia, 1940 TO 1970, Lake, Marilyn, 2001
Book Section
- Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988
- Australian territory rights policy, Bandler, Faith, 1987
Conference Proceedings
- Reports and resolutions, Conference quick Aboriginal Affairs (8th : 1965 : Canberra, A.C.T.), 1965
Resource
Site Exhibition

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