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- Title
The Cairns Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League and the Community of the Left.
- Authors
Taffe, Sue
- Abstract
The Cairns Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League (CATSIAL) was a product of its place and time. Conditions in far north Queensland were conducive to the formation of such a body in the late 1950s. This article investigates these conditions, introduces key Cairns Aboriginal activists and explores the relationships between these activists and their non-Indigenous supporters. Drawing on the work of labour historians who have explored the concept of 'community' in labour studies it argues that a community of the Left existed within which the Cairns League could operate successfully. This community, while initially spatially based, broadened to become a community in which shared ideology overcame spatial separation so that the Cairns activists influenced national events despite their isolation from the centres of power.
- Subjects
CAIRNS (Qld.); TORRES Strait; QUEENSLAND; ABORIGINAL Australians; ACTIVISM; SOCIAL action; POLITICAL movements
- Publication
Labour History, 2009, Issue 97, p149
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article