The Aboriginal fight for human rights

By sakushio

  • Aboriginal girls

    The aboriginal girls were removed from families and put in foster homes or missions run by whites.
    This was started in the 1910s.
    The authorities wanted to a lot of things.
    For example, They wanted to cut the children off from them culture and hopefully 'breed out the color' as they later married whites.
    This was continued the late 1960s.

  • Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights

    On Australia Day 1938 a meeting of aboriginal people was held in Sydney. There were circulated called 'Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights'.

  • World WarⅡ

    1939-1945, There was happened World WarⅡ.
    Many aborigines served in the armed forces and thousands moved into the towns to work in the wartime industries.

  • Aboriginal activist protested

    Charles Perkins, aboriginal activist made a bus tour through New South Wales.
    They protested about discrimination in shops, theaters, bars, clubs and swimming pools.

  • Strike by workers

    200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory.

  • The right to vote and be counted in censuses

    After a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses, and ended the protection policies.

  • The Embassy set up

    Aboriginal tent embassy set up in Canberra.
    The embassy said that blacks were now going to get up and fight back on the various problem.

  • Take possession of land

    Aboriginal people got back them traditional land.

  • First Aboriginal Land Rights Act

    They got the land, but there are very arid and largely useless land.

  • Australian land was recognised as the property of the indigenous peoples

    In 1992 the High Court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist.
    So the 1993 Native Title Act allowed Indigenous Australian to claim land rights.