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Day of mourning
On Australia day 1938 a meeting of Aboriginal people was held. The Aboriginal claim for citizen rights, this was the first time they had ever made a national protest. -
World war II
First bombs ever to hit Australia fell on Darwin that morning as Japanese raiders struck their most southerly blow of the war. -
Gurindji people demand a better deal
200 workers waked off the wave hill cattle station in the northern territory. They wanted better wages and conditions and their traditional land back. -
White voters demand a better deal for the first Australians
after 90% 'yes' vote the government gave indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses. -
Freedom riders demand equal treatment
A group led by Aboriginal activist protested about discrimination in shops, theatres , bars, clubs, and swimming pool -
Aboriginal Tent Embassy set in Canberra
The Embassy said that blacks were now going to get up and fight back on the issues of education, health, police victimization, locking people -
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
However this Northern Territory law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land. -
Eddie Mabo ends terra nullius
Devasting impacts on Aborginal culture were offically recognised as being wrong in the 1990. The bristish claimed the lands of Australia aussming that nobody owned them, but some torres strait islanders challenged this, and said that they were the rightful owners. -
The High court agree
The high court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist -
Native Title Act
In 1993 Native title act allowed Indigenous Australians to claim land rights. -
Bringing them home
Bringing them home is the 1997 Australian report of national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres strait islander children from their families. -
Indigenous Australians in 2001
The first Australians could now vote, be counted in censuses, and had full human rights.