1980 - 13 June
Telegram from John Moriarty to Father Smith notifying him he is unable to attend the reunion.

1980 - 13 June - Telegram from John Moriarty to Father Smith - Reunion Attendance

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1980 - 14 June - Father Smith is made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

1980 - 14 June - Father Smith is awarded MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours

1980 - Advertiser Article Father Smith MBE Investiture

1980 - Advertiser Article Father Smith MBE Investiture

1980 - Father Smith awarded Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

1980 - Father Smith awarded Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Letter to Father Smith from Government House - Adelaide - Investiture Invitation

Letter to Father Smith from Government House - Adelaide - Investiture Invitation

Letter to Father Smith from Governor of SA Keith Seaman

Letter to Father Smith from Governor of SA Keith Seaman

Letter to Father Smith from office of the Governor General

Letter to Father Smith from office of the Governor General

Letter to Father Smith from Premier of SA David Tonkin

Letter to Father Smith from Premier of SA David Tonkin

Letter to Father Smith from Senator Neville Bonner

Letter to Father Smith from Senator Neville Bonner

MBE News Clipping

MBE News Clipping

1980 - 14 June - Charles Perkins and Joe Croft at the 1980 reunion.

1980 - 14 June - Charles Perkins and Joe Croft

1980 - 14 June
List of guests at MBE Celebration and St Francis House Reunion. Irene Espie, Bill Espie, G. G. Nayda, Les Nayda, V. Copley, Desmond Price, Judy Almond, David Woodford, Brian Butler, Chandran, Margaret Rowe, Spencer Dunkerley, Phillip Sunman, Christine Sunman, Margaret Hampton, Ken Hampton, Brenda Copley, Joanna Cooke, Lanette Nayda, Ian Nayda, Jessica Ridge, Marie Burke, Rose Foster, Janette Rowe, Neville Perkins, Millicent Glenn, Charlie Perkins, Joe Croft, Clifford Bray, Phillip Woodford, Malcolm Bald, Nell Deane, Laurie Deane, John Smith, P McD Smith, I E Smith

1980 - 14 June - Reunion at Banksia Park - List of Signatures of Guests

1981 - Charles and Eileen Perkins meet Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his wife Tamie.

1981 - Charles Perkins and Ilene Perkins meet Malcolm Fraser and his wide Tamie

1981 - St Francis House boy George Kruger commences his work with Fred Hollows. Her worked with Dr Hollows in remote Aboriginal communities for eighteen years.

1981 - Fred Hollows AC

1982 - 7 May
Father Smith passes away aged 79. The funeral was conducted at North Road Anglican Cemetery, Nailsworth, Adelaide, South Australia. Pallbearers included a number of St Francis House boys.

1982 - 7 May - Father Smith passes away

1983 - July
Prime Minister Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel Hawke view an Aboriginal painting presented to them at the Lodge in Canberra by the National Aborigines’ Day Observance Committee (NADOC). John Moriarty, National Chairman of NADOC and Charles Perkins, Chairman of the Aboriginal Development Commission.

1983 - July - John Moriarty and Charles Perkins present artwork to Prime Minister Bob Hawke during NAIDOC week

1984 - 30 March
Report in The Advertiser on the appointment of Charles Perkins as the first Aboriginal person to head a Commonwealth Government Department as Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs by the Hawke Government.

1984 - 30 March - The Advertiser - Perkins first Aborigine to head department

1984 - 20 December
Reunion at St Francis House.

Back row: John Moriarty, Richie Bray, Wally McArthur, Charlie Perkins, Fe Smith, Brian Butler, John Smith, Vincent Copley.

Front row: Max Wilson, Mrs Smith.

1984 - Reunion at St Francis House

1985 - 10 June - Ken Hampton is awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

1985 - 10 June - Ken Hampton

1986 - 20 December - Report on the ordination of Rev Ken Hampton OAM as the first South Australian Aboriginal Deacon in the Anglican Church from the Adelaide Church Guardian.

1986 - 20 December - Church Guardian - SA's first Aboriginal Deacon

1987 - 26 January- Charles Perkins is made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours.

1987 - 26 January - Perkin AO - News Clipping

1987 - 9 July - Letter to Mrs Smith frim Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Australian Government, Charles Perkins AO.

1987 - 9 July - Letter to Mrs Smith frim Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Australian Government

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1987 - 11 September
Rev Ken Hampton OAM passes away aged 51.

A sprinter and member of the Alawa people from the Roper River area in the Northern Territory. Though taken when he was three years old, he became schoolboy athletics champion and won the 1961 Bay Sheffield 130-yard race in 12.4 seconds. After his elite running days Ken became a community leader and Anglican deacon, and the first Aboriginal Justice of Peace in South Australia. In 2009 Ken was inducted to the Bay Sheffield Hall of Fame.

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1987 - 11 September - Ken Hampton - Advertiser Article

1988 - 5 November - Report in The Advertiser on Charles Perkins entitled From the bush to the bureaucracy.

1988 - 5 November - Advertiser Article - Charles Perkins - From the bush to the bureaucracy

1988 - 7 November - Time Magazine article by Alan Ramsey entitled Perkins' Bloodiest Scrap.

1988 - 7 November - Time Magazine Article - Perkins' Bloodiest Scrap by Alan Ramsey

1988 - 24 December - Feature articles published in The Advertiser entitled John Moriarty - The Quiet rage of a peace-loving man by Nigel Hopkins.

1988 - 24 December - Advertiser Article - John Moriarty - The Quiet rage of a peace-loving man by Nigel Hopkins

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1989 - 28 January
Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend Magazine Cover Story about the career of Charles Perkins

Story entitled, “THE BLACK KING WHO LOST HIS HEAD” was written by BLANCHE d'ALPUGET.

SMH Good Weekend Cover - Charles Perkins - Why this man was knifed

SMH Good Weekend story - The Black King Who Lost his Head.
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SMH Good Weekend story - The Black King Who Lost his Head.