Aboriginal Fight For Human Rights

By zoecjin

  • Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights

    Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights
    A meeting was held on Australia day in 1938 where a document titled 'Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights' was circulated.
    This was the first time Aboriginal people protested in a national manner, and the event was widely reported in any papers.

  • Bombing of Darwin

    Bombing of Darwin
    Bombs first fell on Dawin in Australian on the 19th of February in 1942 by Japanese raiders.

  • Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment

    Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment
    An Aboriginal led team (led by activist Charles Perkins) toured through New South Wales protesting about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, clubs, and swimming pools.

  • Gurindji People Demand A Better Deal

    Gurindji People Demand A Better Deal
    In 1966 200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages and conditions, along with their tradition lands back. They eventually gained ownership in 1985.

  • White Voters Demand A Better Deal For First Australians

    White Voters Demand A Better Deal For First Australians
    After 90% of the population voted 'yes' to the government giving Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses, as well as ending the protection policies.

  • Aboriginal Tent Embassy Set Up In Canberra

    Aboriginal Tent Embassy Set Up In Canberra
    The Embassy said that blacks were now going to get up and fight back on the issues of education, health, police victimisation, locking people up.

  • Land Rights To Be Granted To First Australians

    Land Rights To Be Granted To First Australians
    A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived.

  • First Aboriginal Land Rights Act

    First Aboriginal Land Rights Act
    The Northern Territory law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land. Other land claims were often thrown out by the courts.

  • Eddie Mabo Ends Terra Nullius

    Eddie Mabo Ends Terra Nullius
    Britain claimed Australian lands in the late 18th century due to the fact that they assumed nobody owned said land. A ground of Torres Strait Islanders led by Eddie Mabo, challenged this due to the fact that their people had inhabited Murray Island for thousands of years and so didn't wish the land to be taken.

  • March Against Sydney Harbour Bridge

    March Against Sydney Harbour Bridge
    250 000 people marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in May of 2000 to petition for the Prime Minister to apologise to indigenous Australians for past wrongs.