Curthoys Ann Journeys Australia New South Wales - Freedom ride: a freedom rider remembers

ANN CURTHOYS

FREEDOM RIDE

a freedom rider remembers

First published in 2002

Copyright Ann Curthoys 2002

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Curthoys, Ann.
Freedom ride : a freedom rider remembers.

ISBN 1 86448 922 7.

1. Curthoys, Ann, Journeys. 2. Australia History. I. Title.

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Note: Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the photographs and illustrations produced. As these efforts were unsuccessful, the copyright holders are asked to contact the publisher directly.

The students

Note: Ages are sometimes approximate, and both age and enrolment in university courses are for February 1965.

Charles Perkins, 29, third-year Arts, Arrernte man, born in Alice Springs, former soccer player, Aboriginal activist

Gary Williams, 19, third-year Arts, Gumbaynggir man from Nambucca Heads

Aidan Foy, 19, third-year Medicine, member of the ALP Club

Alan Outhred, 19, third-year Science, member of the Labour Club

Alex Mills, 25, third-year Theology, member of the Liberal Club

Ann Curthoys, 19, third-year Arts, member of the Labour Club

Barry Corr, 18, second-year Arts

Beth Hansen, 19, third-year Arts, member of the Humanist Society

Bob Gallagher, 19, third-year Engineering, member of the Labour Club

Brian Aarons, 19, third-year Science, member of the Labour Club

Chris Page, 19, third-year Medicine

Colin Bradford, 19, third-year Science, member of the Labour Club

Darce Cassidy, 22, part-time third-year Arts, also ABC radio producer

David Pepper, 18, second-year Arts

Derek Molloy, 19, third-year Arts

Hall Greenland, 19, third-year Arts, member of the ALP Club

Helen Gray, 19, second-year Arts

Jim Spigelman, 19, third-year Arts, leader of the Fabian Society, breakaway group from the ALP Club

John Butterworth, 20, third-year Science

John Gowdie, University of New England, son of Presbyterian minister from Dubbo

John Powles, 22, fifth-year Medicine, founder of the Sydney University Humanist Society, involved in Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Judith Rich, 20, third-year Arts

Louise Higham, 18, second-year Medicine, member of the Labour Club.

Machteld Hali, 18, second-year Arts, born in Holland, raised in Indonesia

Norm Mackay, 19, third-year Science, member of the Labour Club

Paddy Dawson, 19, third-year Arts, member of the ALP Club

Pat Healy, 20, third-year Arts, member of the Labour Club

Ray Leppik, 22, postgraduate Science

Rick Collins, 19, third-year Arts

Robyn Iredale, 20, fourth-year Arts, in Geography Honours

Sue Johnston, 20, fourth-year Arts, in History Honours

Sue Reeves, 19, third-year Arts, member of Abschol

Warwick Richards, 19, third-year Arts, member of the Student Christian Movement

Wendy Golding, 17, second-year Arts

Also on the bus

Gerry Mason, an older Aboriginal friend of Charles Perkins from Gerard government reserve in South Australia

Bill Pakenham, from Punchbowl, driver of the bus until Grafton

Ernie Albrecht, from Lugarno, driver of the bus from Grafton onwards

Students on the follow-up trips

Sue-Ann Loftus

Owen Westcott, 18, second-year Arts

Christine Jones

Aboriginal rights organisations and leaders

AAF Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, a mixed-race organisation for Aboriginal rights founded by Pearl Gibbs and Faith Bandler in 1956.

APA Aborigines Progressive Association, a largely Aboriginal organisation for Aboriginal rights, founded in January 1964, with Bert Groves, formerly president of the AAF, as president. The name had also been used by an earlier organisation in the 1930s.

The Foundation The Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs, founded in 1964 to provide support for Sydneys growing Aboriginal population.

SAFA Student Action for Aborigines. Formed in 1964 at the University of Sydney to organise the Freedom Ride. Lasted until 1967.