a timeline of the struggle for rights and freedoms

By brentonharris
  • Period: to

    the struggle for rights and freedoms

  • indigenous Australians proclaim the 150th anniversary of settlement a "day of mourning"

    • the day that europeans took over the land
    • day of mourning because they lost most rights
    • new people not considering them people
    • disrespected by europeans
    • discriminated
    • there was a protest
    • led by william cooper and jack patten

  • indigenous men enlist for WW2

    • the indigenous men want to fight for the country
    • even though they are not considered people they still fight
    • while fighting they are almost considered people
    • their race doesnt matter when fighting
    • torrens straight islanders fight this time

  • The UN adopts the universal Declaration of Human Rights

    • the un created a set of human rights for all countries who wished to follow it
    • this outlined basic human rights
    • the countries who entered didn't have to put it onto their written laws
    • it should have changed the way aboriginals were treated
    • UN should have made it compulsary for it to be in written law

  • artist albert Namatjira, an Aboriginal citizen, is charged for supplying an Aboriginal ward of the state with alcohol

    • an aboriginal who was accepted by australians
    • he wasn't in the state ward
    • aborginals in the state ward weren't allowed alcohol
    • he was allowed alcohol
    • he was allowed into bars unlike most aboriginals

  • Indigenous workers walk off Vestey's cattle station at Wave Hill, demanding better pay and conditions

    • the aboriginal workers where labour workers
    • they went on strike demanding there land back aswell as other things
    • it was the first step towards the referendum of 1967
    • they were discriminated in pay due to being aboriginal
    • they knew they deserved more

  • In a national referndum, 90% of voters vote for Indigenous Australians to be Included in the census

    • up until this point aboriginals were considered flora and fauna
    • this referendum finally saw aboriginals acceptance
    • aboriginals are now finnaly considered people
    • aboriginals are now counted in a census and given the right to vote
    • the referendum recorded the highest yes vote in a referendum