rights and freedom

By lornamcnabb

  • National Day of Mourning and Protest

  • Conference to disscus setting up the UN

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were given the right to vote in federal elections

  • Announce to excise land in Yirrkala reserve

    Prime minister Robert Menzies told the Government's intentioin to excise land from the Yirrkala reserve in Arnhem land, Nothern Territory, for bauxite mining

  • Australian Freedom Ride

  • Gurindji people walked off Wave Hill

    200 Gurindji people, led by Vincent Lingiari, walked off Wave Hill cattle station in protest over poor pay and condiitions for Aboriginal people working there

  • Government established Aboriginal Lands Trust

  • Referendum amended the Constitution to give Commonwealth power

    Power to make speical laws and count Indigenous people in the cencus

  • Referendumn in Australia

  • Gurindji people petitioned Governor-Genral

    They petitioned Governor-General for a lease of 1290 square kilometres at Wattie Creek

  • Limited number of agreements reached between state-governments and Indigneous communities

    Eg. In Victoria, the government grnted ownershop of former reserves to the Aboriginal communities at Lake Tyers and Framlingham in the Western Districts

  • Tent Embassy was established in Canberra to agitate for land rights

  • Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation established

  • Bringing them home report was released

  • Apology to Australian Indigenous peoples

    Delivered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

  • Commonwealth Aboriginal Land Rights Act

    Passed by Federal Parliment