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Aborigines make a national protest. A document called Aborigines claim citizen rights was circulated. During the celebration of 150 years of so-called progress it highlighted historical injustices and appealed for justice, decency and fair play. For aborigines it was a Day of Mourning.
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Aboriginal activists made a bus ride through NSW protesting about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars clubs and swimming pools.
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90% of white voters voted Yes to giving Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses and ended the protection policies (segregation) of the past.
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The Embassy said that blacks would now fight back on issues of health education and police victimisation.
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The 1992 High Court decision agreed that terra nulius (the assumption that the land belonged to no-one) was racist and wrong.
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The Native Title Act allowed for Indigenous Australians to claim land rights
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The Human Rights Commission release a report on the horrors of th Stolen Generation and make recommendations to government to rectify this.
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Kevin Rudd the Australian Prime minister says Sorry to Indigenous Australians for the Stolen Generation.
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250,000 people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge protesting against the Prime Minister's refusal to say Sorry.
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400,000 turn out in Melbourne for a protest march critical of the Australian government.
