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Bandler, Faith Ida Lessing (c. 1918 - )

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Born: c. 1918  Tumbulgum, New South Wales, Australia

Faith Bandler has campaigned for Aboriginal and Islander rights throughout her life, firstly through the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and later through the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She has written novels and children's literature as well as many non-fiction works relating to Aboriginal rights. Her biography, Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist, written by Marilyn Lake, was published in 2002.


Career Highlights
Faith Bandler and her sister enlisted in the Australian Women's Land Army during World War II. She was employed at Young, picking cherries and also the farming districts of Bathurst and Griffith. She was discharged on the 11 October 1945.

Bandler was offered an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to the community in 1976, but declined it in protest against the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. She later accepted a nomination as Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and received the honour on 11 June 1984. This was for service to Aboriginal welfare.

 
Sources used to compile this entry: Who's Who in Australia 2002; Horton (ed) 1994, Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia; Lake 2002, Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist.
 
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Books

  • Bandler, Faith, Wacvie, Rigby, Adelaide, 1977, Rigby pp. [ Details... ]
  • Bandler, Faith, Welou, my brother, Wild & Woolley,, Glebe, N.S.W., 1984c, 125 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Bandler, Faith, Turning the tide : a personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1989, 173 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Bandler, Faith; Fox, Len, Marani in Australia, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980, 112 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Bandler, Faith; Fox, Len, The Time was ripe : a history of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (1956-69), Alternative Publishing Co-operative, Chippendale [N.S.W.], 1983, 203 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Heimans, Frank, Faith Bandler [videorecording] : born 1920 : civil rights activist, Film Australia, Lindfield, N.S.W, 1993c. [ Details... ]
  • Lake, Marilyn, Faith : Faith Bandler, gentle activist, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, N.S.W., 2002, 238 pp. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Bandler, Faith, 'Australian land rights policy', in J.C.R. Camm, John McQuilton (ed.), Australians, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Broadway, N.S.W., 1987, pp. 23-[30]. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

  • Scutt, Jocelynne A. (ed.), As a woman: writing women's lives, Artemis, Melbourne, Vic., 1992, 253 pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Bandler, Faith, 'Paving the way : a tribute to black Australian writers. [Keynote speech given at the presentation of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (1993)]', Writers on Writing, 1999, pp. (105)-108. [ Details... ]
  • Lake, Marilyn, 'CITIZENSHIP AS NON-DISCRIMINATION: ACCEPTANCE OR ASSIMILATIONISM? POLITICAL LOGIC AND EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT IN CAMPAIGNS FOR ABORIGINAL RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA, 1940 TO 1970', Gender and History, vol. 13, no. 3, 2001, pp. 566-592. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • Hope, Deborah, 'Keeping the faith [Although she has faith in youth and the future, Faith Bandler grieves for the life she has lost in the battle for rights]', Australian, 19-20 Sept, pp. Review 2-3. [ Details... ]
  • Secord, Walt, 'A lifetimes accomplishment [Faith Bandler]', Aust. Jewish Times, 4 Aug, p. 17. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

See also

  • 'FAITH BANDLER', in Australians, Behind the News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Boardcasting Corporation, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/f.bandler.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Adelaide, Debra, Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Title Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide / Debra Adelaide. Published, Pandora Press, London ; Sydney, 1988, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Conference on Aboriginal Affairs (8th : 1965 : Canberra, A.C.T.) (ed.), Reports and resolutions, Canberra, 1965, 51 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Darling, Elaine, 'They spoke out pretty good: the leadership of women in the Brisbane Aboriginal rights movement, 1958/ 1962', Melbourne Historical Journal, vol. 24, 1996, pp. (87)-103. [ Details... ]
  • Hall, Robert A., The black Diggers : Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1997, 228 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Horner, Jack, 'Details of pioneers in Aboriginal movement.', Identity, 01 Jan, pp. 10-11. [ Details... ]
  • Horton, David (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994, 2 v. (xxxiii, 1340 p.) pp. [ Details... ]
  • Lake, Marilyn, '2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture : founding fathers, dutiful wives and rebellious daughters.[Lecture presented to a Tasmanian Historical Research Association meeting on 10 Apr 2001.]', Papers and Proceedings (Tasmanian Historical Research Association), vol. 48, no. 4, 2001, pp. 268-279. [ Details... ]
  • Marr, David, 'Betrayal [White attitudes to Indigenous people]', Sydney Morning Herald, 20 May, pp. Spectrum (1), 4-5.. [ Details... ]
  • McLaren, John, Australian literature : an historical introduction, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1989, 272 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, Talkin' up to the white woman : Aboriginal women and feminism, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000, xxv, 234 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Richards, Michaela, 'Aboriginal women', in The Australian people, Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, N.S.W., 1988, pp. 255-259. [ Details... ]
  • Stephens, Tony, 'Faith -Bandler-, a vision splendid', Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Aug, p. 35. [ Details... ]

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