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Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights
This declaration was the first time Aboriginal people had made a national protest. It was widely reported in the papers and many white Australians now started to take notice of their plights -
More visible during the war
The awareness of the second-class status of Indigenous Australians became even more obvious to the general public as a result of World war 2 (1939~1945) 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 fight and die for their country they deserved a fair go -
Freedom Riders demand equal treatment
A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a but tour through New South Wales. They protested about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars m clubs and swimming pools -
Gurindji people demand a better deal
200 workers walked off the Wave Gill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages and conditions, and their traditional lands back. Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985 -
White voters demand a better deal for first Australian
After a 90% ‘yes’ vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses, and ended the predation 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 victimization, locking people up, Bobby Sykes, Aboriginal activist -
Land rights to me granted to first Australians
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived -
Fist 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 ere often thrown out by the courts.