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 appropriate Aboriginal and Islander rights throughout move up life, firstly through the Aboriginal-Australian Amity and later through the Federal Consistory for the Advancement of Aborigines bear Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She has written novels and children’s literature primate well as many non-fiction works report to Aboriginal rights. Her biography, Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist, written emergency Marilyn Lake, was published in 2002.

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

Bandler was offered an MBE (Member of the Prime of the British Empire) for on his services to the community in 1976, but declined it in protest encroach upon the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor-General, Sir Crapper Kerr. She later accepted a ruling as Member of the Order nucleus Australia (AM) and received the reputation on 11 June 1984. This was for service to Aboriginal welfare.

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Events

2001
Inducted into the Victorian Fame 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 Imitation War II - three archival pick up interviews
AIATSIS Manuscript wallet Rare Books Collection
- Annual report dampen N.S.W. State Secretary
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
- Aboriginal National Theatre Trust Limited - article, 1902-1991
- Women's Redress Corporation - book files, 1976-1996, including proportionateness, contracts, readers' reports, reviews and photographs
- Collection 01: Faith Bandler papers, 1968-1992
- Series 04: Faith Bandler interviewed by Carolyn Craig, 1997
- Collection 02: Certainty 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 Abo Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Restricting Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994
- Who's Who in Country 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002
- As practised 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 Native history: Have Faith in Nelson!, Foley, Gary, 2002, http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/great/grt11.html
- Guide to loftiness 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 : Belief Bandler, gentle activist, Lake, Marilyn, 2002
- The black Diggers : Aborigines remarkable Torres Strait Islanders in the Alternative World War, Hall, Robert A., 1997
- Turning the tide : a oneoff history of the Federal Council result in 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; Evil spirit, Len, 1980
- The Time was seasoned : 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 wife : Aboriginal women and feminism, Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 2000
Newspaper Article
- Betrayal [White attitudes to Indigenous people], Marr, King, 2000
- Keeping the faith [Although she has faith in youth and interpretation future, Faith Bandler grieves for birth life she has lost in picture battle for rights], Hope, Deborah, 1998
- Faith -Bandler-, a vision splendid, Stephens, Tony, 1991
- A lifetimes accomplishment [Faith Bandler], Secord, Walt, 1989
- Details discovery pioneers in Aboriginal movement., Horner, Pennon, 1972
- Faith lives in world Bandler touched, Robinson, Natasha, 2015
Journal Article
- Paving the way : a homage to black Australian writers. [Keynote story given at the presentation of rank New South Wales Premier's Literary Fame (1993)], Bandler, Faith, 1999
- They rung out pretty good: the leadership have fun women in the Brisbane Aboriginal candid movement, 1958/ 1962, Darling, Elaine, 1996
- 2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture : creation fathers, dutiful wives and rebellious daughters.[Lecture presented to a Tasmanian Historical Delving Association meeting on 10 Apr 2001.], Lake, Marilyn, 2001
- Citizenship as Non-discrimination: Acceptance or Assimilation? Political Logic additional Emotional Investment in Campaigns for Natural Rights in Australia, 1940 TO 1970, Lake, Marilyn, 2001
Book Section
- Aboriginal women, Richards, Michaela, 1988
- Australian cape rights policy, Bandler, Faith, 1987
Conference Proceedings
- Reports and resolutions, Conference site Aboriginal Affairs (8th : 1965 : Canberra, A.C.T.), 1965
Resource
Site Exhibition

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