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Aborigines claim citizen rights
This festival of 150years of so-called “progress“ in Australia commemorates also 150 years of misery and dewgradation imposed upon the original inhabitants by the white invaders of this country.You claim that you are trying to protect us,but your modern policy of so-called protection is killing us off just as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us like dingoes. -
Freedom riders demand equal treatment
A group les by aborigines activist charies Perkins made a bus tour through New South Wales,
They protested about discrimination in shops,theatres,bars,clubs and swimming pools -
Gurindji people demand a bettter deal
200 workers walked off the wave hill cattle station in the Northern Territory.they wanted better wages and conditions,and their traditional lands back.the gurindji eventuslly gained ownership of the area in 1985 -
White voters demand a better deal for first Australians
After a 90% “yes” vote the government gave indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses,and ended the protection policies -
Aboriginal tent embassy set up 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 up.
Bobby Sykes,aboriginal activist -
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.other land claims were often thrown out by the courts -
The bulletin
In may 2000 250 000 people walked avrosss Sydney Harbour bridge and up to 400 000 marched in Melbourne in December.,many marchers carried sights and banners critical if the prime minister’s refusal to say “sorry”to indigenous Australians for past wrongs.