Coolbaroo League

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The Coolbaroo League (also Coolbaroo Club) was a Western Australian Aboriginal social club. [1] [2] Newspaper reports in the 1950s frequently provided the translation of the name as Magpie. [3]

The club was founded in 1946 [4] by brothers Jack and Bill Poland, Lena Clarke, and Geoffrey Harcus, [5] and ceased in the early 1960s. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Harcus and the Poland brothers were returned servicemen, and the Poland brothers and Clarke were Aboriginal. [5]

Between 1954 and 1957, it published the Westralian Aborigine . [12] [1]

In 1996, a documentary was made about the club. [13] The film's summary stated, [14]

Coolbaroo was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practised unofficial apartheid, submitting Aboriginal people to harassment, identity cards, fraternisation bans and curfews.

Despite the success of lessening restrictions in the 1954 Native Welfare Act, conditions in Perth were still problematic for the majority of Aboriginal people living in the metropolitan area. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Coolbaroo League | Kaartdijin Noongar".
  2. ↑ "Coolbaroo Club Perth - Western Australia". Archived from the original on 14 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "COOLBAROO LEAGUE GIVES SOLDIER WARM WELCOME". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) . Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 15 November 1952. p. 1. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Aboriginal Youths Form Own Club". The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950) . Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 2 August 1947. p. 17 Edition: LATE SPORTS. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  5. 1 2 Wynne, Emma (3 March 2025). "Coolbaroo League's role in Aboriginal rights movement celebrated at Perth Festival". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Cooperation. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  6. ↑ Darbyshire, Jo; Perth (W.A. : Municipality) (2010), The Coolbaroo Club : 1947-1960, City of Perth, ISBN   978-0-9808513-0-4
  7. ↑ Perth (W.A. : Municipality). Council (1900), The Coolbaroo Club : 1947-1960 , retrieved 10 December 2015
  8. ↑ "WEST'S LONE OASIS OF TOLERANCE.(FEATURES)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: 040, 9 July 1997, retrieved 10 December 2015
  9. ↑ Taylor, A (March 2000), "'The sun always shines in Perth': a post-colonial geography of identity, memory and place", Australian Geographical Studies, 38 (1): 27–35, doi:10.1111/1467-8470.00098, ISSN   0004-9190
  10. ↑ Taylor, Affrica (1998), ""The sun always shines in Perth". Memory, place and identity [The Coolbaroo Club a local history film]", Urban Life, Urban Culture: Aboriginal/Indigenous Experiences: Proceedings: 267–280, ISBN   978-0-646-36462-9
  11. ↑ Bynder, Barbara (2014), Wildflower dreaming : Shirley Corunna and the Coolbaroo League, 1952-1962 : Berndt Museum at the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Centre, 15 July - 13 December 2014, [Nedlands, WA] Berndt Museum, ISBN   978-1-876793-52-4
  12. ↑ Westralian Aborigine, Paterson Brokensha, 1954, retrieved 13 December 2015 is a microfilmed set, between 1954 - 1957
  13. ↑ Robins, Penny; Scholes, Roger; Marsh, Lauren, 1961-; Kinnane, Stephen, 1967-; Ronin Films; Annamax Media; Coolbaroo Club Productions; Kanopy (Firm) (1996), The Coolbaroo Club, Ronin Films and Coolbaroo Club productions in association with Annamax Media, retrieved 10 December 2015{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "History lessons in search of common ground.(Review)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: 3, 26 June 2010, retrieved 11 December 2015
  15. ↑ Delmege, Sharon (2014), From camp life to suburbia : Aboriginal housing in Perth , retrieved 10 December 2015

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