Faith Bandler AM (born 27 September 1920), an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage, is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians. Bandler was born Ida Lessing Mussing in Tumbulgum, New South Wales, in 1920. Her father, Peter Mussing, had been blackbirded from Ambrym Island, part of Vanuatu, in 1883, … Wikipedia
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As a young girl of South Sea Islander heritage growing up in rural New South Wales in the 1920s, Faith Bandler experienced discrimination first-hand. Her father had been kidnapped from his home in the South Sea Islands and forced to work for no pay in th www2.oxfam.org.au/change-your-world/can-one-person/faith-...
Faith Bandler is a descendant of South Sea Islanders. During the 1950s, she became involved in the peace movement, and in 1956 was instrumental in setting up the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship. In 1974, Faith decided to direct her energies to the 16,0 www.australianbiography.gov.au/bandler/index.html
Faith Bandler is well known for her active role in publicising the YES case for the Aboriginal question in the 1967 Referendum. ... I grew up with a family that had tremendous freedom. There were eight of us. We lived on about two or three acres - we www.nma.gov.au/indigenousrights/person0253.html?pID=954
