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Australia's six colonies became one nation -
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the strike involved at least 500 aboriginals pastoral workers walking off the large pastoral stations in the Pilbara -
A group of students from the University of Sydney, inspired by the United States 1961 Freedom Rides, got on a bus on 12 February, 1965 and toured through regional towns such as Walgett, Gulargambone, Kempsey, Bowraville and Moree to show wider Australia the experience of Aboriginal Australians -
Voted to change the Constitution so that like all other Australians, Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islander peoples would be counted as part of the population and the Commonwealth would be able to make laws for them -
Aboriginal Legal Service and Aboriginal Medical Service set up in Redfern (grassroots activists include Mum Shirl, Fr Ted Kennedy), along with Aboriginal Housing Company.
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Aboriginal Land RIght Act in 1983 in NSW recognizes dispossession and displacement. -
Same as Title
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ATSIC assumes responsibility for NAIDOC week
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It reduced native rights for indigenous people
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The PM says "sorry" to the stolen generation -
The plans to recognize indigenous Australians in the constitution.
