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Resistance to European invasion
When the European settlers arrived in Australia the Aboriginals fought against them to keep their land. Pemulwy speared and killed the governor's game keeper John Mcintyre because he had killed many Aboriginals. -
Australian Aborigine's Progressive Association formed
The Aborigines Progressive Association were the ones who helped to organize the day of mourning protest in1938. They had three aims in the association.
1.full citizenship rights for Aboriginal Australians
2.Aboriginal representation in Parliament
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Assimilation Policy of 1937
Aboriginal people were forced to leave their ways of life and adapt to the white mans way of life. They were forced to live in the white society. -
Day of Mourning
This was a protest held by the Aboriginals to fight for equality. -
Pilbara Aboriginal Pastoral Strike
More than 800 Indigenous workers walked off the job in protest because they had lack of personal freedom, poor pay (often only rations) and sub-standard living conditions. -
Aboriginal People given the rights to vote
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Freedom Ride
The plan for the freedom ride was organised by students at the University of Sydney to show the public the poor state that Aboriginals were living in. Aboriginals were living in poor housing, they had poor education and poor health -
1967 Referendum
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Aboriginal people are excluded from the Census
Aboriginal people were excluded from the censuses that occured every 5 years until 1971 -
Tent Embassy established
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Racial Discrimination Act 1975 passed
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Uluru handed back to traditional owners
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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
The Royal Commision into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was a study that was conducted to find out why so many Aboriginals were dying in the gaols -
Bicentenary protest march
More than 40,000 people including Aboriginals staged a march demanding for land rights. They walked through Sydney and finished at Hyde Park where activists and Aboriginal leaders spoke.
