Aborigines Advancement League (AAL)

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Charmine Clarke, Aunty Mouse Lovett?

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Ray Thomas (on guitar)

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Possibly Ollie Tregonning (on the right)

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Jill Gallagher?

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Aunty Edna Brown

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Uncle Norman Lovett and Uncle Bill Brunett

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Charmine Clarke, Aunty Mouse Lovett, 3 more from the Lovett family in the front row

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Charmine Clarke, Aunty Mouse Lovett, 3 more from the Lovett family in the front row

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Noel Atkinson, Lona Atkinson

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Uncle Norman Lovett

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Uncle Norman Lovett

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Noel Atkinson, Lona Atkinson

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Mary Atkinson and possibly Kevin Atkinson?

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Lovett men

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Miss NAIDOC and Kennedy Edwards (holding baby)

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Lovett men with Aunty Bunta

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Lovett men with Aunty Bunta

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Lovett family. Uncle Norman Lovett in the middle

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Lovett family. Uncle Norman Lovett in the middle

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Lillian Tregonning and her sister, Aunty Ollie Lovett, wife of Uncle Norman Lovett

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Aunty Eleanor Harding and Marilyn Walker

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Aunty Eleanor Harding (in background)

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Richard Frankland's Uncle (holding baby)

The Aborigines Advancement League (AAL) was founded in 1957 by Sir Pastor Doug Nicholls (Yorta Yorta), Doris Blackburn, Stan Davey and Gordon Bryant. The League was formed in response to the poor living conditions of Aboriginal people in the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. According to the AAL's website, the primary aims of the League when it was first established was to attain citizenship for Aboriginal people, work on integrating Aboriginal people into the community, strive to co-orindate the various Victorian Aboriginal welfare organisations, and establish "a general policy of advancement for Aboriginal people".

An all-Aboriginal branch of the League was established in 1964. During the 1970s, the League was fundamental to the establishment of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, an Aboriginal Women's Refuge and the Aboriginal Child Care Agency.

Every NAIDOC week the League holds gatherings and celebrations for Elders and the community. Pictured here are images of the 1991 Elders lunch, including Miss NAIDOC.

References

Aborigines Advancement League. "About AAL". Accessed online 22 February 2021. https://aal.org.au/

Swain, Shurlee. "Victorian Aborigines Advancement League". eMelbourne. July 2008. https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01551b.htm

Aborigines Advancement League (AAL)