Achievements
On 27 June 1937 he launched the Aborigines' Progressive Association at Dubbo, opening branches later on reserves.
In November he was a witness before the Legislative Assembly's select committee on the administration of the Aborigines Protection Board
on Australia Day, 1938. That year Patten and Ferguson wrote the pamphlet, Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!, and petitioned the prime minister Joseph Lyons, for a national Aboriginal policy.
From 1938 Ferguson organized the A.P.A., conducting five annual conferences in country towns, formulating its policies, arranging publicity and welfare work. Among his assistants were Pearl Gibbs, Herbert Groves and William Onus, and a few white people.
He demanded an inquiry into Menindee Aboriginal station
Turning Point
On 18 February 1911 traveled
On 18 February 1911 at Narrandera Presbyterian Church he married
In 1920-24 he worked as mailman between Quambone and Gula
He settled his wife and twelve children at Dubbo permanently in 1933
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