Aboriginal Timeline

By mwij21

  • Church Shelter

    Church Shelter
    Period of time-1900s
    People Involved-Aboriginals, White Authorities
    Themes (Big Ideas involved) Erasing Culture
    Message (Main message about rights). Although aboriginals were given a place to live in, these places had conditions. If the aboriginals expected to be accepted by the whites, they were to become Christian and they were asked not to follow or be part any aboriginal culture.

  • Anthony Martin Fernando

    Anthony Martin Fernando
    Period of time- 1920
    People Involved-Anthony Martin Fernando
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)- Campaigning
    Message (Main message about rights)-He showed that the whites were killing aboriginals or because of the strict laws for the aboriginals and the lack of rights for aboriginals is making it hard to survive.

  • The Australian Aborigines League

    The Australian Aborigines League
    Period of time-1937
    People Involved-Bill Onus, William Cooper, Doug Nicholls
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-
    Message (Main message about rights)-They were helping aboriginals protest about the lack of rights or they were representing aboriginal communities professionally so even the little communities are being heard by the whole country.

  • The Day of Mourning

    The Day of Mourning
    Period of time-1938
    People Involved-Aboriginals
    Themes (Big Ideas involved-Freedom
    Message (Main message about rights)- it was a day of celebration but at the same time a day to protest against the 150 years of callous treatment and for their proper rights.

  • Albert Namatjira

    Albert Namatjira
    Period of time- 1957
    People Involved- Albert Namatjira
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Freedom
    Message (Main message about rights)- He was one of the only six people that were exempted of some of the restrictions.

  • Human Rights For Australian Aborigines

    Human Rights For Australian Aborigines
    Period of time- 1957
    People Involved -Mary Bennet
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Aboriginal Rights
    Message (Main message about rights)- In this book Mary Bennet wrote about the sort of suffering aboriginals has gone through, especially giving her perspectives about the children being stolen from aboriginal communities.

  • Dog Tag

    Dog Tag
    People Involved- Art Work-Sally Morgan
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Civil Rights, Wiping off Aboriginal culture.
    Message (Main message about rights)- with this certificate aboriginals were granted some of the civil rights whites had, but this certificate was to be carried out everywhere and they were asked to leave their communities.

  • Petition

    Petition
    Period of time-1963
    People Involved- People of Yirrkala
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-recognition, freedom, Human Rights
    Message (Main message about rights)- People of Yirrkala presented a petition against the mining prospect, and this was the first time aboriginal documents were recognised by parliament.

  • Wave Hill Station Spur

    Wave Hill Station Spur
    Period of time-1966
    People Involved- Sabu Sing, The workers at Wave Hill Station
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Land Right, Civil Rights
    Message (Main message about rights)-The workers walked off their jobs because they were fed up with the extra hard work, especially with a little salary.

  • Faith Bandler's Gloves

    Faith Bandler's Gloves
    Period of time- 1967
    People Involved-Faith Bandler
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Campaigning
    Message (Main message about rights)-She was a prominent campaigner for indigenous rights, and she wore these gloves as this represented the formal dress code that was quite common amongst the middle class white women.

  • Claw Bale Hook

    Claw Bale Hook
    Period of time-1967
    People Involved-Joe McGinness
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Campaigning, Fight for Rights
    Message (Main message about rights)- He was an activist who travelled around Australia helping indigenous communities protest and campaign against injustice. He was also a part of the 1967 referendum.

  • Referendum

    Referendum
    Period of time- 1967
    People Involved-Australian Aboriginals, and most of the Australia’s people
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)- A voice of their own.
    Message (Main message about rights)- This referendum determined that the Aboriginals will be counted in the census. This represented their existence to the rest of the world, because if they did not count them it is basically implying that the aboriginals are worthless.

  • Segregating Seats

    Segregating Seats
    Period of time-1969
    People Involved-Charles Perkin’s son; Adam, White Australians, and Aboriginal Australia
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Segregation
    Message (Main message about rights)- These seats were used in the Ray-Mond Theatre and arranged the seatings to separate aboriginals from Whites. But after being suspended for 40 years they were re-used in the performance for From Little Things Big Things Grow, and they held an opening ceremony to cleanse the unhappy past. There the son of Charles Pe

  • Doug Nicholls

    Doug Nicholls
    Period of time-1976
    People Involved-Doug Nicholls
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)-Speaking out for his people
    Message (Main message about rights)- He was a famous football player, and he was well known amongst the white communities. He used his fame to speak out for his people and to represent his people as a public figure to speak against injustice and unfairness.

  • Commemorating Landmark

    Commemorating Landmark
    Period of time-1988
    People Involved- Indigenous People
    Themes (Big Ideas involved)- Giving back to the people.
    Message (Main message about rights)- The lands of Gurindji were returned to the people after the petition and the strike by the people working at wave hill station.