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the struggle for rights and freedoms
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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