Abo Call

[2][3] The paper was written and edited by John (Jack) Patten, who co-founded of the Aborigines Progressive Association (APA) in 1937, and featured news gathered by Patten on his travels through eastern Australia, as well as from correspondents nationwide.

[a] Stephensen was known as a writer and publisher, and was honorary secretary of the Aboriginal Citizenship Committee, a support group of the APA,[3] but was also known for turning to pro-Fascist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Communist views in his magazine The Publicist which he founded in 1936.

Abo Call is available online through Trove, a service hosted at the National Library of Australia which allows access to historic Australian periodicals and newspapers.

[5] The State Library of New South Wales holds the six issues that were published, among Percy Reginald Stephensen's papers.

[6][7] Marcia Langton later wrote that she and the other founders of the monthly paper Koori Bina at Black Women's Action in 1976 had been inspired by Abo Call.