This article details the angry meeting held at 5 Elizabeth St Sydney following the dismissal of Herbert Hersee.

Considerable hestitation about whether or not to establish a national association.

AAD’s first meeting in 1986

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

On 23 May the Sydney Morning Herald recorded the establishment of “a new society”.

In contrast to the meeting in 1977, the delegates at this meeting agreed to establish a national association of deaf people.

Australian Association of the Deaf

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

Wild scenes at the Deaf Society AGM.

Deaf Conference in Sydney, October 1922

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

Queensland breakaway association founded.

Committee photograph from 1944

1932-1933 Committee

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

A written conversation

Ernest Quinnel was one of the leaders of the NSW breakaway association.

Including an article on the New South Wales Adult Deaf and Dumb Association.

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

Ratified in December 1932

The Deaf Writers’ Group’s first publication

From April 1931, reproduced in 1933.

1986

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

Proposed in 1934.

1933

Sydney Morning Herald, October 1913.

c. 1906

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

A plea from Martha Overend Wilson, c1936.

1935

292 Hay Street, East Perth

Part of the “Amalgamation File” which contains documents relating to the forced merger of the Association of Deaf and Dumb Citizens in the Deaf Society in 1937.

A meeting to discuss the future of the ADDA.

1936

292 Hay Street, East Perth

Newspaper summary of the congress.

Deaf organisation senior staff group photo. Willie Hately is in the middle row, on the far left.

August 1937

Rules of the Australasian Deaf and Dumb Association.

Annual Reports of Deaf Committee 1930-50