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[Handwritten number in blue ink:] 135

Action Sheet for Campaign Committee Members – No. 1. (A.S. 1)

[Underlined:] REFERENDUM

FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ABORIGINES AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS

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[Underlined:] NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

JOINT CAMPAIGN DIRECTORS:

J. McGuinness, 104 Wigram Road, FOREST LODGE, N.S.W.

and as from late April –

9 Gough Street, CAIRNS, QLD.

and

G.M. Bryant, M.P., 486 Sydney Road, COBURG, VIC. (Phone 35-5908)

[and as from late April –] Parliament House, CANBERRA, A.C.T. (Phone 705 Ext. 546)

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[Underlined:] WHAT YOU CAN DO

Note: [word underlined] Any successful campaign depends upon the action of the individual members.

The following suggestions are some of the things that any person may be able to do. The object should be to involve as many other people as possible. For instance, in No. 3 [underlined text:] you would ask other people for the stamps. [end underlined text.] Posters, stickers, etc. are in the process of being prepared, but [underlined text:] you may be able to start by making some of your own [end underlined text] or getting somebody else to do it. We would be grateful to hear of any activity which is proceeding.

1. Arrange to display a poster.

2. Arrange for others to display posters.

3. Send some stamped, addressed envelopes to Campaign Director, Box 75, Coburg, Victoria, addressed to people to whom a letter or communication of some sort could usefully be sent. This can be in your own community or in any others for that matter.

4. Collect some donations. [underlined text:] Even small ones are valuable. [End underlined text.] A collection sheet is enclosed. Don't wait until you have filled the sheet (there are plenty more sheets).

5. Sell "Smoke Signals". If everyone sells a few it amounts to a large number. "Smoke Signals" is the magazine of the Victorian A.A.L. who has agreed to a special issue for the Referendum with approximately 10 cents from the sale of each one being allocated to the National Campaign. An order form is attached.

6. Arrange for someone else to sell "Smoke Signals".

7. Display a sticker on a car.

8. Arrange for others to display stickers on cars.

9. Write to the editor of the local paper in terms of the information sheets received from the Campaign Committee or ask for it to be inserted as a news item.

10. Do the same with any other journal you know of.

11. Approach your local M.P., Shire President or City Mayor for assistance in the campaign (we hope they will all be written to).

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12. Don't be afraid to take up a collection at any gathering you attend.

13. Raise the subject of the Referendum in conversations where possible.

14. Reproduce news items received and hand them around, especially if you have a duplicator at your disposal.

15. Prepare yourself to make speeches on the subject – we can send you a 12-15 minute speech.

16. Send us any newsworthy items – we may be able to plant them somewhere –

e.g. a note on local action[,]

Aboriginal conditions in the area[.]

17. Write some verses to the tune of Waltzing Matilda –

"Vote YES Australia, Vote YES Australia, The eyes of the world are looking at you, etc.

And send them to us.

The key to the campaign is individual initiative. There are five million [number underlined] votes to be won.

[underlined:] URGENT NOTE: [end underlined text] Please return the completed sheet (Operation Referendum) handed out at the Conference (if you haven't lost it).

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