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 returned Aboriginal soldiers, and ceased in the early 1960s. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Between 1954 and 1957, it published the Westralian Aborigine . [11] [1]

In 1996, a documentary was made about the club. [12] The film's summary stated, "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." [13]

Despite the success of lessening restrictions in the 1954 Native Welfare Act, conditions in Perth were still problematic for the majority of Aboriginals living in the metropolitan area. [14]

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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. ↑ Darbyshire, Jo; Perth (W.A. : Municipality) (2010), The Coolbaroo Club : 1947-1960, City of Perth, ISBN   978-0-9808513-0-4
  6. ↑ Perth (W.A. : Municipality). Council (1900), The Coolbaroo Club : 1947-1960 , retrieved 10 December 2015
  7. ↑ "WEST'S LONE OASIS OF TOLERANCE.(FEATURES)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: 040, 9 July 1997, retrieved 10 December 2015
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ 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
  11. ↑ Westralian Aborigine, Paterson Brokensha, 1954, retrieved 13 December 2015 is a microfilmed set, between 1954 - 1957
  12. ↑ 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 2015CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ "History lessons in search of common ground.(Review)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: 3, 26 June 2010, retrieved 11 December 2015
  14. ↑ Delmege, Sharon (2014), From camp life to suburbia : Aboriginal housing in Perth , retrieved 10 December 2015
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