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Australia's sesquicentenary
Australia’s sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) celebrated around Australia. Aboriginal leaders in Melbourne and Sydney hold ‘Day of Mourning’ events and call for citizenship rights. -
Adoption of UDHR
Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by United Nations Image: first copy of the UDHR is printed at University of California Berkely press -
American Freedom riders
American Freedom Riders travel on racially mixed buses in the southern United States
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Martin Luthers King Jnr's speech
Martin Luther King Jnr delivers his ‘I have a dream’ speech during the March on Washington -
Australian segregation found to be practised
Australia’s Freedom Riders discover segregation being practised in country NSW during a ‘fact finding’ tour. -
Efforts to include aboriginals in the census
Overwhelming support for referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Commonwealth to make laws for Aborigines and to include them in the census -
Aboriginal Tent Embassy established
Aboriginal Tent Embassy established on the lawns of Parliament House in response to the McMahon Government’s refusal to accept native title -
Government returns land to the Gurindji people
The Whitlam Government returns 3300 square kilometres of land to the Gurindji people – a beginning to land rights for Aboriginal people in Australia -
The ATSIC established
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) formally established as the key representative body responsible for the implementation of self-determination policies -
Bringing Them Home report is tabled in Parliament
The Bringing Them Home report is tabled in Parliament. The report includes thousands of testimonies from members of the Stolen Generations.
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Abolishment of the ATSIC
The Howard Government abolishes ATSIC -
The Northern Territory 'Intervention'
2007 The National Emergency Response in the Northern Territory, known as ‘the Intervention’, begins -
Formal apology to Stolen Generations
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Stolen Generations.
