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Freedom Riders
A group of students form the University of Sydney were inspired by the 1961 Freedom Rides and toured through regional towns such as Walgett, Gulargambone, Kempsey, Bowraville and Moree to show the whole of Australia the life of Aboriginal Australians. This event was lead by Charles Perkins, who was an Arrernte Soccer Player who was the first Indigenous person in Australian history to graduate university. -
Wave Hill Protest
Also known as the Gurindji strike, it was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families in August 1966 at Wave Hill, a cattle station in Kalkarindji (formerly Wave Hill). It was originally thought to be purely for work and living conditions, but it actually turned out that the main focus was for return of some of the traditional lands of the Gurindji people, which had covered 3,250 square kilometres of the Northern Territory before European settlement. -
Uluru was Handed Back
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Abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
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Sorry Day
During the 20th Century, Australian Government police caused many Aboriginal children to be removed from their families in order to assimilate them into more "white" culture. This caused what we call the "Stolen Generation", of which effects are still being felt even today. Kevin Rudd offered a national movement of apology to the Aboriginals on the 12th of February, 2008.
