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The Britsih colonisation of Australia begins
British settlers begin to colonise Australia And a few weeks after this the indigenous Australians were hit with an assortment of many European diseases eg. Malaria -
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Tasmanian Indigenous Population Dies Out
The Indigenous population of Tasmania, the Palawah, had all but died out by 1870 due to killings and disease, a direct consequence of the British settlers and also not being on their land and being able to perform the cultural beliefs -
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The Myyall Creek
30 unarmed Indigenous Australians were slaughtered at Myall Creek, an area near Bingara in New South Wales. At first trail it wasn't taken seriously because the British believed that killing wasn't a crime.On the second trail 7 of the 11 colonists involved were found guilty of murder and hanged. -
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Aboriginal Protection Act 1869
The Aboriginal Protection Act was a law that regulated the lives of Aboriginal people in Victoria, Australia. The act established the Victorian Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines, which gave the board extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal Victorians. The act gave the board of power to moniter every aspect of the Aboriginals lives
This included Residence, Employment, Who they could marry and Social life -
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The Half- caste act
This act was the to remove Indigenous children from their families without having to establish that they were being mistreated or neglected in any way and force them to live the European way of life.Most of these children never saw their families again. -
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Indigenous Soldiers Granted Citizenship
By the end of World War II, indigenous Australians who had served in the army were granted citizenship. Despite this, they were still required to carry papers to prove this -
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Federal Pastoral Industry Award 1968
The Federal Pastoral Industry Award entitled Indigenous Australians to minimum wage. Prior to this, many station workers had been paid only token wages or in produce and some werent paid at all -
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The aboriginals tent was established to get out the voices of the parliament because and Aboriginals held the view that they were seen as strangers in their own country -
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Aboriginal Land Rights Act
The Whitlam Government drafted the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, which sought to return traditional lands to Indigenous Australians. This meant all the indigenous Australians would go back to their homes -
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Aboriginal Land Rights
This was less comprehensive land rights act than that of 1975, however it granted "inalienable" freehold title to some traditional lands in the Northern Territory. -
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2000
2000
In May, nearly 250,000 Australians walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of reconciliation and to protest the Australian Government's lack of an official apology. The 1997 Bringing Them Home report showed that thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait children had been taken away from their families by governments around Australia. These children have become known as the Stolen Generations. -
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Apology For the Stolen Generations and national Sorry day
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to the 'stolen generation', in a gesture to try and make amends regarding the treatment of Indigenous Australians.
National Sorry Day
In response to the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families, a National Sorry Day was instituted to acknowledge the wrong done to the Indigenous population.