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#ThrowbackThursday "Since 1901, 19 referendums have proposed 44 changes; only eight have succeeded." #visitbigvolcano #voteyes Posted @withregram • @capebyronlighthousefriends Posted @withregram • @tweedregionalmuseum 📸 This historic photo includes Community Leaders: Zane Corowa, Nasuven Enares, Wally Mussing, Lerou Leichhardt and Faith Bandler at the CWA Hall Coolangatta, c. 1950s. Their collective and individual activism led to increased rights for Aboriginal and South Sea Islander people. And so, their legacies and family names exemplify an integral part of Tweed’s history. Like the Faith Mussing Bandler Park in Tumbulgum, named in honour of Dr Faith Bandler OAM who spent much of her life fighting for justice ✊🏾 🇻🇺 Dr Bandler cited stories of her father, Peter Mussing’s harrowing experience as a slave labourer as motivation for her activism, “My father was taken from his Island, which is the Island of Ambryn, that makes up the eighty-odd Islands of the nation of Vanuatu, at a very young age. He was about twelve or thirteen in the year 1883, and he was forcibly taken with other men and women and brought to Mackay.” 🌺 Born Ida Lessing Faith Mussing in 1918, Faith was one of eight children raised in Tumbulgum and later Murwillumbah, where she attended high school. In World War II, Faith served in the Australian Women’s Land Army and worked on farms growing food to feed Australians fighting overseas. ☮️ Faith was actively involved in the peace movement of the 1950s. In 1956, she was instrumental in setting up the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship, which led the campaign to abolish the NSW state government-controlled Aborigines Welfare Board (originally as the Aborigines Protection Board). 🖤💛❤️ Dr Bandler was also instrumental in the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines & Torres Strait Islanders’ campaign for a national referendum to change the Constitution. Since helping to win the referendum, Faith actively supported Aboriginal Land Rights and reconciliation. In 1997 she was awarded a Human Rights Medal. Sources: NFSA & The Encyclopedia Of Women & Leadership in 20th Century Australia. #TweedRegionalMuseum #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillB https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn3oJiHpG3S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#ThrowbackThursday "Chillingham and Upper Crystal Creek are about 12 kilometres, or 15 minutes drive, along Tourist Drive 34 (Murwillumbah - Chillingham Road) from Murwillumbah, and is the NSW gateway to southeast Queensland World Heritage National Parks, including Springbrook National Park, which is home to the truly amazing Natural Bridge (previously known as Natural Arch)." Big Volcano Places - Chillingham: https://www.bigvolcano.com.au/places/chillingham.htm #visitbigvolcano #tweedvillages #tweedhinterland #farnorthcoast #northernrivers #historicphoto #blackandwhitephoto #historical Reposted from @pastures_of_the_blue_crane Posted @withregram • @tweedregionalmuseum 🚚 🍌Truck used by johnny Brims of Chillingham transporting bananas to Murwillumbah Railway Station. This load has 500 cases! (Ron Johansen Photographic Collection, 1964). #TweedRegionalMuseum #Chillingham #History #FlashBack #OldPhotos #TweedShire Shared via Instagram @bigvolcano https://www.instagram.com/p/CcmqKOoJLI2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#ThrowbackThursday #bigvolcano #tumbulgum #tweedshire #faithbandler #ulurustatement #statementfromtheheart #Repost @tweedregionalmuseum • • • • • • 📸 This historic photo includes Community Leaders: Zane Corowa, Nasuven Enares, Wally Mussing, Lerou Leichhardt and Faith Bandler at the CWA Hall Coolangatta, c. 1950s. Their collective and individual activism led to increased rights for Aboriginal and South Sea Islander people. And so, their legacies and family names exemplify an integral part of Tweed’s history. Like the Faith Mussing Bandler Park in Tumbulgum, named in honour of Dr Faith Bandler OAM who spent much of her life fighting for justice ✊🏾 🇻🇺 Dr Bandler cited stories of her father, Peter Mussing’s harrowing experience as a slave labourer as motivation for her activism, “My father was taken from his Island, which is the Island of Ambryn, that makes up the eighty-odd Islands of the nation of Vanuatu, at a very young age. He was about twelve or thirteen in the year 1883, and he was forcibly taken with other men and women and brought to Mackay.” 🌺 Born Ida Lessing Faith Mussing in 1918, Faith was one of eight children raised in Tumbulgum and later Murwillumbah, where she attended high school. In World War II, Faith served in the Australian Women’s Land Army and worked on farms growing food to feed Australians fighting overseas. ☮️ Faith was actively involved in the peace movement of the 1950s. In 1956, she was instrumental in setting up the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship, which led the campaign to abolish the NSW state government-controlled Aborigines Welfare Board (originally as the Aborigines Protection Board). 🖤💛❤️ Dr Bandler was also instrumental in the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines & Torres Strait Islanders’ campaign for a national referendum to change the Constitution. Since helping to win the referendum, Faith actively supported Aboriginal Land Rights and reconciliation. In 1997 she was awarded a Human Rights Medal. Sources: NFSA & The Encyclopedia Of Women & Leadership in 20th Century Australia. #TweedRegionalMuseum #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe Shared via @bigvolcano on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CKBZIVuJHCm/?igshid=o4pueo9h50ld