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Crowd attending the Voice to Parliament public ceremony

Ellis, Taryn, 2023, Photograph, B 78645/38

Crowd attending the Voice to Parliament public ceremony. Governor Frances Adamson can be seen speaking on the big screen. The South Australian public were invited by the Government to attend the special sitting of Parliament and the signing of the bill, to be a part of the establishment of Australia's first Voice to Parliament for First Nations People.

Crowd attending the Voice to Parliament public ceremony

Ellis, Taryn, 2023, Photograph, B 78645/39

Crowd attending the Voice to Parliament public ceremony. Musician Nathan May is performing and can be seen on the big screen. The South Australian public were invited by the Government to attend the special sitting of Parliament and the signing of the bill, to be a part of the establishment of Australia's first Voice to Parliament for First Nations People.

Children, Telegraph Station

c. 1900, Photograph, B 20987

Bradshaw children with Tryphena and Rimgie at Alice Springs Telegraph Station.

Little Flower Mission

c. 1939, Photograph, B 25667/13

The kitchen at the "Little Flower" Mission Church School, on the Charles Creek in Alice Springs.

Racegoers at a race meeting

c. 1910, Photograph, B 50504

Race meeting group. Some names are known: Back row: 1. L. Rosenbaum 3 B. Webb 4. C.Dubois. 5. S. O'Grady 7. B. Walkington 10. W. Gallagher 12. L. Bloomfield 13. Policeman: M. Dowdy Front: 1. F. Cavanagh 2. A. Turner 4. T. Cleary 5. H. Lake 6. F. Barrett.

Charlotte Waters

Brown, H. Y. L., c. 1880, Photograph, B 11607

Group of officials and staff of the Telegraph Station at Charlotte Waters. This is located close to the South Australian border with the Northern Territory. Surveyers McMinn and Knuckey located it in 1871 during the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line. It was named for Lady Charlotte Bacon. In 1872 a telegraph repeater, post office, residence and general store were built. The photograph shows a group of telegraph officials, the cook and two Aboriginal children outside the brick building. The station was nicknamed Bleak House as it stood on a treeless plain. A researcher has suggested that the gentleman on the far right may be Ernest Giles, explorer, and the man next to him may be Alfred Giles, South Australian bushman and explorer. The same researcher suggests that the boy on the left could be Erlikilyika (Jim Kite) depending on when the photograph was actually taken and that a nearly identical photograph in the Peter Spillett Collection in the N.T. lists Station Master P.M. Byrnes as being on the right of the photo. Another researcher states that Jim Kite is not in this photograph, and that the men seated are Francis Gillen and Patrick Byrne.

Edward's Creek

Burgess, John, 1966, Photograph, B 49748

Aboriginal humpy.

Danbidleli, also known as Jim Mariner

c. 1920, Photograph, B 32222/70

Photo of Danbidleli, also known as Jim Mariner, holding a spear and with his dog beside him. The photograph was identified by Mrs Lavinia Seaton (nee Pope), resident at Innamincka between 1900 and 1918. There is a reference to Danbidleli in Dr Herbert Basedow's report of the First Medical Relief Expedition, 1920 [GRG 23/1/1920/14].

Residents, Lake Hamilton

Sladdin, F., c. 1890, Photograph, B 39558

Local residents at Lake Hamilton; the men are identified as Harry Hewett and Abel Rawhine.

Schoolchildren and school at Hermannsburg

1932, Photograph, B 8575

Schoolchildren and their teacher Hermann Adolph (Dolph) Heinrich (left) standing outside the Hermannsburg School. Heinrich taught at Hermannsburg from 1917 to 1932.

Hermannsburg

c. 1905, Photograph, B 20980

Residents of Hermannsburg.

Schoolchildren Hermannsburg

c. 1905, Photograph, B 26752

Hermannsburg Mission schoolchildren with their teachers.

Albert Namatjira

Lockett, M., 1952, Photograph, B 36726

Albert Namatjira painting at Hermannsburg Mission, April 1952.

Artist, Hermannsburg

Lockett, M., 1952, Photograph, B 36727

Albert Namatjira and his wife Rubina Namatjira, April 1952.

Artists, Hermannsburg

Lockett, M., 1952, Photograph, B 36728

Albert Namatjira and sons working on the paintings, April 1952.

Albert Namatjira and his family

Lockett, M., 1952, Photograph, B 36729

Albert Namatjira and his family.

Hermannsburg Mission

Strehlow, T., 1900, Photograph, B 42417

Mission Buildings : school, church, store, eating house, smithy, missionaries' residence and Aboriginal thatched bush-houses.

Hermannsburg Mission

c. 1900, Photograph, B 42448

A gathering of the people from the Mission.

Killalpaninna Mission

Government Photolithographer (S.A.), c. 1907, Photograph, B 470

Mission Station. The name of the mission was "Bethesda", of which Killalpaninna, Kapperamanna and Etadunna were integral parts.

Station home Killalpaninna Miss

1897, Photograph, B 11724

Station home Killapaninna Mission Station - large group of workers, residents and children gathered around a small campfire. The Lutheran church pioneered this Bethesda Mission on the Birdsville Track near Lake Killalpaninna. The mission was later extended to an outstation on the shore of Lake Kopperamanna. Lake Killalpaninna is about 40 kms south of Coopers Creek. The missions fell into decline and were closed by the government in 1915