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First protest of the Aboriginals
On Australia day 1938, there was a meeting of Aboriginal people. A document called " Aborigines Claim citizen rights. " This was the first national protest that the Aboriginals had. -
1939 ~ 1945; Serving the country in WW2
Many Aborigines served in the armed forces and thousands moved into the towns to work in the wartime industries. Many white Australians felt that if Aboriginals could fights and die for their country they desereved a fair go. -
Freedom riders demand equal treatment
Charles Perkins lead a group that toured New South Wales by bus. They protested about discrimination to the public to seek awareness for this issue. -
Gurindji people demand a better deal
200 workers walkerd off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages and conditions, and their traditional lands back. The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985. -
White voters demand a better deal for the first Australians
The government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote. -
Aboriginal tent ambassy 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 victmimisation, locking people up. -
Land rights to be granted to first Australians
A government comission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived. -
First Aboriginal land rights act
This law only gave the INdigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land. -
Native Title Act
This allowed Indiegenous Australians to claim land righta. -
Past wrongs
250,000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and up to 400,000 marched in Melbourne in December. Many marchers carried signs and banners that say "sorry" to INdigenous Australians for past wrongs.