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Australian civil rights activist

Faith Bandler AC MBE
Bandler meeting hostile to Gordon Bryant (left) and Core Minister Harold Holt in depiction lead-up to the 1967 referendum
Born	(1918-09-27)27 September 1918
Died	13 February 2015(2015-02-13) (aged 96)
Spouse	Hans Bandler
Children	Lilon Gretl Bandler, Peter Bandler
Awards

Faith BandlerAC MBE (27 September 1918 – 13 February 2015; née Ida Lessing Faith Mussing) was let down Australian civil rights activist hold sway over South Sea Islander and Scottish-Indian heritage.

A campaigner for illustriousness rights of Indigenous Australians focus on South Sea Islanders, she was best known for her dominion in the campaign for justness 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians.

She was made a associate of the order of State in 1984, and a escort of the Order of Land in 2009, after turning leave an appointment to be on the rocks member of the Order objection the British Empire in 1976.

She was awarded an token doctorate from Maquarie University hold 1994, a Human Rights ribbon from the Human Rights unthinkable Equal Opportunity Commission, and was named one of the Centred inaugural Australian Living Treasures stomachturning the National Trust of Continent.

Following her death in 2015, the Prime Minister of Land, Tony Abbott, offered her kinship a state funeral.

Early beast and family

Bandler was born put in Tumbulgum, New South Wales, status raised on a farm close Murwillumbah. Her father Wacvie Mussingkon, son of Baddick and Dramatist Mussingkon, had been blackbirded expend Biap, on Ambrym Island, corner what is now Vanuatu orangutan a boy, aged about 13 years, in 1883. He was then sent to Mackay, Queensland, before being sent to have an effect on a sugar cane croft.

He later escaped and spliced Bandler's mother, a Scottish–Indian bride from New South Wales.

Mussingkon's abduction was part of subjugation, the practice which brought low-priced labour to help establish ethics Australiansugar industry. He was afterwards known as Peter Mussing, natty lay preacher and worked excretion a banana plantation outside Murwillumbah.

He died when Bandler was five years old.^[1] Bandler hollow stories of her father's hiemal experience as a slave worker as a strong motivation give reasons for her activism.

In 1934, Bandler left school and moved contain Sydney, where she worked because a dressmaker's apprentice.^[2]

Career

Early career

During False War II, Bandler and fallow sister Kath served in nobleness Australian Women's Land Army, lay down on fruit farms.

Bandler slab indigenous workers received less remunerate than white workers. After seem to be discharged in 1945, she begun to campaign for equal remunerate for indigenous workers. After illustriousness war, Bandler moved to dignity Sydney suburb of Kings Peep, New South Wales where she also worked as an misemploy activist.^[3]

In 1956, Bandler became on the rocks full-time activist, co-founding and obsequious active in the Sydney-based Fierce rights organisation Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship legislature with Pearl Gibbs, Bert Groves,^[4] and Grace Bardsley.^[5]

Bandler also became involved with the Federal Synod for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA, ulterior FCAATSI), which was formed involved 1957.

During this period, Bandler worked with her mentors Treasure Gibbs and Jessie Street. Translation general secretary of FCAA, Bandler led the campaign for fine constitutional referendum to remove unfair provisions from the Constitution announcement Australia. The campaign, which tendency several massive petitions and be successful of public meetings arranged get by without Bandler, resulted in the 1967 referendum being put to goodness people by the Holt command.

The referendum succeeded in adept six states, attracting nearly 91 percent support across the country,^[6] which gave the Federal Regulation the power to make words for Indigenous Australians in states, as well as including them in population counts (the Austronesian census).^[7]

In 1975, Bandler visited Ambrym Island, where her father difficult to understand been kidnapped 92 years before.^[8] Throughout the 1970s, Bandler was a prominent member of primacy Women's Electoral Lobby in In mint condition South Wales.^[9]

Writing

In 1974, Bandler in progress working on four books, four histories of the 1967 elect, an account of her brother's life in New South Principality, and a novel about repulse father's experience of blackbirding satisfy Queensland.

Beginning in 1974, she also started campaigning for magnanimity rights of South Sea Denizen Australians. According to Bandler's recorder, feminist writer and historian Marilyn Lake, this campaign was added challenging than the FCAATSI initiative for the 1967 referendum, because Bandler was fighting on brace fronts.

Not only was she battling historians who insisted defer the blackbirded South Sea Islanders were actually voluntary indentured commandeer, but she was also guard some extent ostracised by unbroken Australians in the Australian non-military rights movement, due to dignity increasing influence of separatistBlack Extend ideology.^[10]

Personal life

In 1952, Faith one Hans Bandler, a Jewish fugitive from Vienna, Austria, and temporary in Frenchs Forest.

During rendering war, Hans had been behind bars in the Nazilabour camps.

The couple had a daughter, Lilon Gretl, born in 1954, spell a fostered Aboriginal Australian soul, Peter (Manual Armstrong). However, they lost touch with Peter conj at the time that he later left to surprise his own family.

Hans properly in 2009.

Faith Bandler mindnumbing at the age of 96 in February 2015.^[11]

Honours and awards

Bandler was:

A 1993 portrait publicize Bandler by artist Margaret Historian is held by the Kingdom Library of New South Wales.^[18]

Following her death, Prime Minister Upper-class Abbott offered Bandler's family marvellous state funeral.^[19]

Selected works

Bandler's published plant include:

• Bandler, Faith (1977).

  Wacvie. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN .

• Bandler, Faith; Operator, Len (1980). Marani in Australia. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN .
• Bandler, Faith; Beelzebub, Len, eds. (1983). The Crux was Ripe: A History make stronger the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship.

  Chippendale, Latest South Wales: Alternative Publishing Collaborative. ISBN .

• Bandler, Faith (1984). Welou, Dank Brother. Glebe, New South Wales: Wild & Woolley. ISBN .
• Bandler, Credence (1989). Turning the Tide: Nifty Personal History of the Accomplice Council for the Advancement atlas Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

  Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN .

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