Indigenous Rights

By Gilbertwinter

  • The Assimilation

    The Aborigines Protection act was passed in 1909, and thousands of Aboriginal children were stolen from their parents and brought into white homes.

  • The Day of Mourning

    On the 150th anniversary of Australian settlement, (January 26) the Indigenous populace claimed it as "A day of Mourning". Link: http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collections-online/digitised-collections/day-mourning-and-protest-aborigines-conference-75th-anniversary/26th-january-1938

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    The United Nations puts forth and adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlrSYbCbHE

  • The 1962 Electoral Act Amendment

    The Act was to allow for the Indeginous people of Australia to be able to vote, and was passed in all states with Queensland being the only one to lag behind, only passing it after 3 years.

  • The Freedom Rides

    30 white University students under the lead of Charles Perkins boarded a bus, and decided to tour around NSW to see the difference in races and how differently the Indigenous populace was being treated in different parts of the state.

  • The Wave Hill walk off

    Vincent Lingiari lead 200 Aboriginal workers off of the Wave Hill cattle farm in protest of unfair wages. http://indigenousrights.net.au/land_rights/wave_hill_walk_off,_1966-75.

  • The 1967 Referendum

    In 1967 the Australian government held a referendum that allowed for the Indigenous population of Australia to be counted in the census. http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs150.aspx

  • Vincent Lingiari Northern Territory Land

    Vincent Lingiari and his people, the Gurindji, were given back their land by Australian Gough Whitlam, by cerimonely pouring sand into his hands.

  • The Marbo Case

    The Marbo case challenged and won the idea that Terra Nullius was not the case with Indigenous land in Australia.
    http://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/mabo-case

  • The Redfern Speech

    Prime Minister Paul Keating delivered a speech in Redfern on the eve of the International Year of the World's Indigenous People, highlighting that Australia as a nation should address the wrongs of the past, so that we might move forward together, as a whole nation.

  • Bring them Home

    Paul Keating made a report named "Bring them Home" outlying what he called the "Stolen Generation", and said how they had been taken from their homes and how it had detrimentally effected their lives. On the first anniversary of the publishing of the report, it was named as "Sorry Day"

  • The Apology

    Kevin Rudd apologises to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the stolen generation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TZOGpG6cM