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Faith Bandler

Civil rights activist Faith Bandler has made an enormous contribution to the peace movement and indigenous politics.
Series : Australian Biography Series 2 | Year : 1993 | Total Duration : 26.5 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans, Sharon Connolly (Supervising Producer)
Director : Frank Heimans |
Interview Faith Bandler talking about her belief in the power of people. Archival b&w footage, 1967, Aboriginal campaign for equal pay, Aboriginal people singing Òwe are going to freedomÓ, VS Aboriginal man and other people with equal wages banners in street, Faith Bandler giving speech, VS Aboriginal people singing, 00:02:21 Faith Bandler in 1973 interview talking about people being given shocking deal under Queensland Government, MS people singing, Faith saying fairest thing would be a referendum. Freeze frame. Super.
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Access No. 133324 | 58 secs | 1990s, 1960s, | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Faith Bandler talking about her mother's beauty and hard background. Archival colour footage, Mackay 1992, WS cane fire being lit at night, CU flames thrown, wide shots fire burning orange, WS silhouette four islanders walking with orange sunset sky in B/G, MS men against orange B/G. Interview Faith about her father being kidnapped as a child and brought to Australia to work in the Mackay canefields, her father telling stories from his own outdoor kitchen.
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Access No. 133325 | 2 mins | 1990s | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph large group of South Sea Islander canecutters.
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Access No. 133326 | 6 secs | 1930s | Qld, Australia | © National Library of Australia | B&W |
Various still b&w photographs kidnapped South Sea Islanders on board ship: three native men, large group at bow of schooner, huddled group of young islanders, WS sailing boat, pan boat plan showing kidnap victims crammed in.
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Access No. 133327 | 25 secs | Various | South Seas | © ABC Television | B&W |
Interview Faith Bandler talking about the kidnapped men and children who were brought to Australia to work in the Queensland canefields. Still b&w photograph, 1800s, group of Kanakas in western clothes in front of hut. B&W photo, 1800s, Kanakas in canefield, man in wagon F/G. B&W photo WS workers and farm machine in canefield. B&W photo, 1900s, Kanakas outside tent with dog.
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Access No. 133328 | 28 secs | 1990s, 1800s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia; Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Interview Faith Bandler talking about the extremely hard life for Kanakas in the Queensland canefields. Still b&w photograph, late 1800s, large group of Kanakas with white overseers. B&W photo detail of previous. Interview Faith about the overseers having whips and guns. B&W photo women in canefield. B&W photo small kanaka child sitting on ground with dog. B&W photo caneworkers around wagon laden with cane. B&W photo group of Kanakas in canefield, all wearing hats. B&W photo detail of worker carrying cane to wagon.
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Access No. 133329 | 1 min 2 secs | 1990s, 1800s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia; Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph WS line of Kanakas working in canefield. B&W photo Kanaka woman. Interview Faith Bandler talking about the Kanakas dying in great numbers. B&W photo group of Kanakas, one dressed. Interview Faith about Kanakas dying from diseases caused by malnutrition, being buried in common graves which they had to dig. B&W photo Kanaka people seated around meal table. Interview Faith about being told how bad it was to dig the graves of one's own people.
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Access No. 133330 | 47 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia; Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph of three Kanaka men in clothes and hats, middle man with squeezebox. Interview Faith Bandler talking about the Kanaka slave trade being stopped at the turn of the century due to public outcry. B&W photo, 1900s, large group of Kanakas dressed in white ready for deportation back to islands. Interview Faith about her father not being sent back because he had married and had a family.
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Access No. 133331 | 34 secs | 1990s, 1900s, | Qld, Australia; Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1970s, pan R-L Tweed River rural landscape. Interview Faith Bandler talking about her father's banana farm up in the hills of the Tweed River district where she was born.
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Access No. 133332 | 22 secs | 1990s, 1970s, | NSW, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage Sydney, circa 1940s, park, crowded pedestrians in street with parked cars, WS Sydney Harbour Bridge. Interview Faith Bandler talking about finding opportunity to go to concerts when she came to Sydney, meeting her husband at a concert in the Town Hall.
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Access No. 133333 | 32 secs | 1990s, 1940s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, Faith Bandler as young woman sitting in chair wearing Women's Land Army uniform. Interview Faith Bandler talking about working in the Women's Land Army. B&W photo, 1940s, trees being pruned. Interview Faith about her strength as a youth. B&W photo Faith and two other girls having break from pruning in orchard. Interview Faith about being moved around in Land Army, being paid poorly, not liking camp discipline.
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Access No. 133334 | 40 secs | 1990s, 1940s, | NSW, Australia | © Faith Bandler | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, Faith Bandler as young woman with two other Land Army girls. B&W photo Faith in uniform with friend in Griffith, 1942. Interview Faith Bandler talking about there not being any acknowledgment of the Land Army girls after the war.
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Access No. 133335 | 32 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Faith Bandler | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, two horses pulling farm machine in field, men on machine. Interview Faith Bandler talking about coming back to Sydney when the war was over.
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Access No. 133336 | 11 secs | 1990s, 1940s, | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1940s, Faith Bandler as young woman sitting on grass, war memorial (or cenotaph) in B/G. B&W photo, 1940s, Faith sitting with group of people, man (Barry Cohen ?) and two women. Interview Faith Bandler talking about joining the Margaret Walker Dance Group, dance on discrimination against Aboriginals taken to festival in Berlin with Faith as part of that troupe.
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Access No. 133337 | 46 secs | 1990s, 1940s, | Australia | © Faith Bandler | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1951, Faith Bandler and other dancers performing at House of Culture in Berlin. B&W photo Faith holding bouquet of flowers, celebrating performers in B/G. Interview Faith Bandler talking about going to see concentration camp in Germany, seeing Europe soon after the war having a deep effect on her, returning home and Hans returning from Tasmania.
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Access No. 133338 | 57 secs | 1990s, 1950s, | Berlin, Germany, Europe; Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Faith Bandler | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1952, Faith Bandler and husband Hans celebrating marriage, two ladies raising cocktail glasses. Interview Faith Bandler talking about moving to North Sydney when she got married. B&W photo Faith holding baby Lilon. B&W photo Faith holding baby Lilon up. Interview Faith about her membership of the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship.
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Access No. 133339 | 34 secs | 1990s, 1950s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Faith Bandler | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1954, CU Pearl Gibbs in hat and glasses. Interview Faith Bandler talking about Aboriginal people in NSW being totally controlled by the government. B&W photo May Day march. Interview Faith about Pearl Gibbs' fight for Aboriginal rights, Australian Aboriginal Fellowship's achievement in 1969 (referendum) because of group's dedication. B&W photo, 1952, Jessie Street sitting at desk. Interview Faith about fellowship patron Jessie Street being determined to get referendum and drafting petition. B&W photo CU Jessie Street.
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Access No. 133340 | 1 min 41 secs | 1990s, 1950s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Interview Faith Bandler talking about situation for black stockmen being bad at time of campaign for 1967 referendum . Archival b&w footage, 1966, various shots Aboriginal stockmen, riding bucking horse, older Aboriginal in stockman's hat mixing flour dough, stockmen at work, landowner counting wages, thumb print made as signature. Interview Faith Bandler about poor state for Aboriginal people.
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Access No. 133341 | 45 secs | 1990s, 1960s, | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival b&w footage, 1960s - 1970s, two Aboriginal children. Interview Faith Bandler talking about children being taken from their parents. Archival b&w footage Aboriginal woman in hat bending over, CU elder with white beard, girl on swing, WS three girls walking through settlement. Interview Faith about conflicting state laws for Aboriginal people, need to abolish those laws and to bring everyone under one common federal law, importance to have a referendum to change the federal constitution.
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Access No. 133342 | 1 min 24 secs | 1990s, 1960s, | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1950s - 60s, CU smiling Jessie Street. Interview Faith Bandler talking about getting various unions to circulate handbills for Aboriginal rights, getting major changes made in the federal constitution in 1967, working towards the referendum from 1957 to 1967.
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Access No. 133343 | 1 min 3 secs | 1990s, 1950s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival footage Aboriginal Pastor Doug Nicholls speaking, ÒVote Yes for AboriginesÓ written on footpath, man walks into building, Faith Bandler talking about public confusion on how to vote on referendum day, Canon Coldrake talking about all the churches wanting a Ôyes' vote from their members, Zelman Cowen talking about a Ôno' vote being damaging to Australia's international reputation, Faith Bandler talking about importance of ticking Ôyes' on ballot paper.
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Access No. 133344 | 48 secs | 1960s | Australia | © ABC Television | B&W |
Archival b&w footage, 1967, VS people voting at referendum on Aboriginals' right to vote, booths along street pavement, Faith Bandler. Interview Faith Bandler talking about memory of the morning of the referendum, fearing the worst and needing comfort, feeling she couldn't cope with disappointment if the vote wasn't carried.
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Access No. 133345 | 1 min 6 secs | 1990s, 1960s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still b&w photograph, 1967, Faith Bandler and others celebrating the win of the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal vote.
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Access No. 133346 | 8 secs | 1960s, 1960s, | Australia | © ACP Publishing | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, 1967, Faith Bandler and husband Hans seated at desk.
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Access No. 133347 | 4 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Faith Bandler | B&W |
Still portrait photograph, 1967, CU Faith Bandler. B&W photo, 1971, Faith in turban speaking at microphone.
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Access No. 133348 | 9 secs | 1960s, 1970s, | Australia | © News Ltd | B&W |
Still b&w photograph, 1972, Faith Bandler at typewriter in FCAATSI office. Interview Faith Bandler talking about not expecting reward for instigating changes for the better for human beings, life being about getting up and helping each other, various action groups, human beings' duty to get involved in raising people to be equals.
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Access No. 133349 | 2 mins | 1990s, 1970s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1992, WS people cutting sugar cane by hand, VS islander women sorting cane, tractor and combine harvester in B/G. Interview Faith Bandler talking about becoming interested in and concerned for her own people after the 1967 referendum, Colour footage men cutting cane. Interview Faith about islanders suffering racial discrimination. VS islander men digging in earth with mattocks, planting sugar cane.
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Access No. 133350 | 1 min 1 sec | 1990s | Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Interview Faith Bandler talking about the National Council of Islanders, submissions on behalf of island people in Australia to Royal Commission into human relationships. Still b&w photograph, 1975, Faith Bandler with chin resting on hands. Interview Faith about the personal experience of going to island of Ambryn and finding her father's village, wanting to record the story of her father's life.
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Access No. 133351 | 1 min 18 secs | 1990s, 1970s, | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © John Fairfax Publications | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1975, aerial Ambryn islands. Interview Faith Bandler talking about the emotional experience of visiting her father's island of Ambryn. Footage of Biap village, huts and campfire, children, mother and child, villagers sitting around at meeting. Interview Faith about being housed in local clinic and each morning being offered food, islanders' way of claiming her as one of their own.
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Access No. 133352 | 1 min 59 secs | 1990s, 1970s, | Ambryn Island, South Pacific; Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Archival colour footage,1975, VS Faith Bandler talking with Ambryn Island villagers, women carrying pots. Interview Faith Bandler talking about feeling that she belonged to Ambryn Islander people.
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Access No. 133353 | 29 secs | 1990s, 1970s, | Ambryn Island, South Pacific; Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC Television | Colour |
Still colour photograph Faith Bandler holding baby grandchild. Interview Faith Bandler talking about her hopes for the future of the world, manufacturing of weapons, children deserve a decent world to grow up in.
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Access No. 133354 | 50 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Faith Bandler | Colour |
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