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You join this meetup group and participate in any events at your own risk. In February Cooper, Nicholls and others lobbied Thomas Paterson, the Commonwealth minister for the interior, over the need for Federal control of Aboriginal affairs. He trained at Seymour and Bonegilla before being posted to the 29th Battalion. His army service was brief, however, and he was discharged in Melbourne on compassionate grounds on 22 January His biographer claimed that the Fitzroy police requested his return to mediate in the racial tensions developing between servicemen and the mostly respectable Aboriginal families living in crowded and dilapidated Fitzroy housing; Aboriginal people maintain that they requested his release.
Nicholls began welfare work and religious services from an Aboriginal home in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. Ordained a Churches of Christ pastor in , Nicholls conducted a vigorous ministry from a chapel in Gore Street, Fitzroy. His work survived on donations, a small honorarium, and his employment as team coach and curator at the Northcote Football Ground. In the s Gladys established grocery and opportunity shops to earn income and provide services. Their house soon overflowed with people in need or visitors to Melbourne.
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Nicholls also hosted inspiring African American visitors such as the pianist Winifred Attwell and the singer Harry Belafonte. His ministry extended to Aboriginal country communities.
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Gladys taught Sunday school, undertook endless fund-raising and welfare work beside her husband, and became his greatest supporter and financial manager. Maintaining the stance of a political moderate, he did not bear grudges and sought to build bridges between black and white. He co-operated with any group that aided the cause, including the Council of Aboriginal Rights, whose executive were members of the Communist Party of Australia.
This association attracted the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, which in began to keep a file on Nicholls. As its paid field officer and spokesman, Nicholls contested assimilation policies and used film to raise awareness of issues. When the Welfare Board attempted to close Lake Tyers reserve, Gippsland, he resigned in disgust and led a protest march on parliament in May In Nicholls was a foundation member of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders after , which he served as national field officer and Victorian secretary As the AAL leadership moderated their stance, he returned as president of the new all-Aboriginal organisation.