Abo Call

The Australian Abo Call was the first publication that was released for Aboriginal people of an Aboriginal. It was released by Jack Patten and appeared in six editions from April to September 1938. The subtitle of the newspaper was The Voice of the Aborigines ( The Voice of the Aborigines ). Patten was a politically active Aborigines, which, inter alia, on the first mass strike by Aboriginal people, the Cummeragunja walk-off, had been involved and the initiator of the Day of Mourning was.

Although Patten co-founder and member of the Aboriginal Progressive Association was, was the secretary of this organization, William Ferguson, against the subscription call because Ferguson also wanted to publish a magazine for Aborigines.

Subscription is an offensive term for Aborigines, which is in use in Australia.

The magazine subscription call made ​​after six months of their publication, because it lacked funds.

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