Bert Groves
Achievements:
- he was engaged by the Aborigines Protection Board as handyman on Bulgandramine Aboriginal reserve.
- He took an interest in the health and education of the children at Walhallow Aboriginal School and became president of the parents' and citizens' association.
- he opposed the establishment of a rocket-range in Central Australia.
- he was appointed a justice of the peace.
- Groves became first president of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (formed in Sydney to bring together Aborigines and Whites).
- he was a founding member of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement.
Turning points:
- Groves was apprenticed to a plumber, but found it difficult to obtain jobs. For a while he worked a horse scoop on the construction of the Dubbo to Werris Creek railway.
- He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 14 April 1943 and served in Australia. After his discharge on 26 January 1945, he settled in Sydney.
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