the fight for aboriginal human rights

  • Aborigines claim citizen rights

  • Aboriginals served in the war

    They served from 1939-1945
  • Immigration department was set up

  • Immigration department was set up

  • Period: to

    White Australian policy was phased out

  • Gurindji people demand a better deal

  • Freedom riders demand equal treatment

  • Freedom riders demand equal treatment

  • White voters demand a better deal for first Australians

  • Aboriginal tent embassy set up in Canberra

  • Lands rights to be granted to first Australians

  • First aboriginal land rights act

  • High court agreed that Terra nullius was wrong and racist

  • Native title act allowed indigenous Australians to claim land rights

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