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Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment
A group lead by Aboriginal activist Charles 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 better 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 eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985 -
White Voters Demand a Better Deal For The First Australians
After a 905 yes vote the government gave indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses and ended the protections 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 victimisation, locking people up. Bobby Skyes, Aboriginal activist -
Land Rights To Be Granted To The 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 -
Marching To Say Sorry
In May 2000, 250 000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge. and up to 400 000 marched in Melbourne. Many marchers had signs and banners to say 'Sorry' to the Indigenous Australians for past wrongs -
Indigenous Australians Rights In The 21st Century
The Indigenous people can now vote, be counted in censuses and had full human rights. But still their living conditions and quality of life were generally inferior to the rest of the population because of their race and the colour of their skin. -
Black Lives Matter Protests
In 2020 there were multiple protests all over the world to support the movement of Black Lives Matter. In Australia they chose to focus their protests on supporting the Aboriginal people of their country and speak out for how they have been treated since the British came to Australia.
