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After WWII
After ww2 white attitude towards the first Australians began to change. During the 1950s the indigenous Australians were allowed to :
- enrol for voting
- drink in hotels
- travel without restrictions -
By The Early 1960s...
By the early 1960s Aboriginals received pensions and maternity benefits. But inequalities remained in pay, voting, access to facilities, control of children and land rights. -
Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment
A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Whales. They protested about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, clubs and swimming pools -
Gurindji People Demand A Better Deal
200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages and conditions, and their traditional lands back. -
White Voters Demand A Better Deal For First Australians
After a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be courted in censuses, and ended the protection policies -
Aboriginal Tent Embassy Set Up In Canberra
The Embassy said blacks were now going to get up and fight back on issues of education, health, police victimisation, locking people up. Bobby Sykes, Aboriginal activist -
Land Rights To Be Granted To First Australians
a goverment commison recommended that aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived -
First Aboriginal Land Rights Act
However this 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 -
The Gurindji Peoples Land
The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985 -
High Court
In 1992 the High Court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist. So the 1993 Native Title Act allowed Indigenous Australians to claimland rights. -
Native Title Act
In 1992 the High Court agreed to say that terra nullius was wrong and racist. So the 1993 Native Title Act allowed Indigenous Australians to claim land rights. -
May Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk
250000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge, many marchers carried signs and banners critical of the Prime Ministers refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs -
December Melbourne March
40000 people marched in Melbourne in December, many marchers carried signs and banners critical of the Prime Ministers refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs
