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Settlers arrive in Australia
The first British settlers arrived in Sydney. The relationship between them and the natives were relatively friendly. -
The Clashes Begin
Governor Phillip was wounded by an Aboriginal due to a misunderstanding -
Sickness and Disease
The bodies of hundreds of natives washed up on beaches as they were dying from foreign diseases they had no immunity against. This increased suspicions Aboriginals had against the settlers -
Tasmanian Relocation
150 Tasmanian Aboriginal people had been moved to Flinders Island in the Bass Strait for their safety -
Massacre at Myall Creek
Indigenous Australians had made his cattle and sheep stampede. causing a party of armed stockmen to get revenge. The roped 28 unarmed men, women and children of the Kwiambal people and slaughtered them. -
Death of Tasmanian Aboriginal People
The last of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people die -
Australia becomes a nation
150000 people gathered in Sydney to celebrate the creation of a country: Australia. There were no Aboriginal Australians present. -
Western Australian Government Report
Native prisoners were being chained by the neck, children used as slave labour and starvation rations being given out -
Breeding out the colour
Thousands of children with mixed European and Aboriginal descent were stolen from their families and many ended up in mission schools -
1928 Massacre
The death of a white mining prospector at Coniston Station resulted in about 100 Aborigines being killed by police. -
Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights
This declaration was the first time Aboriginal people had made a national protest and many white Australians now started to take notice of their plight -
More Visible During the War
Many Aborigines served in the armed forces for WW2 and thousands moved into the towns to work in wartime industries -
Situation Report
Most were under the control of Protection and Welfare Boards, many were not paid, could not vote and were not regarded as Australian citizens -
Freedom Riders demand equal treatment
A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Wales and protested about Aboriginal discrimination -
Gurindji people demand a better deal
200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station for better wages, conditions and their traditional land back. -
White voters demand a better deal for the Aboriginals
90% voted yes for the Aboriginal people for their right to vote and ended the protection policies -
Aboriginal tent embassy set up in Canberra
The Embassy said that black were now going to get up and fight back on the issues of education, health, police victimisation and locking people up -
Land rights to be granted to first Australians
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and traditionally lived -
First Aboriginal Land Rights Act
This law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land -
Gurindji gain ownership
The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the Wave Hill cattle station area -
Ending of Terra Nullius
The High Court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist -
Native Title Act
This allowed Indigenous Australians to claim land rights -
The Commonwealth
Cathy Freeman carries both the Australiana and Indigenous flags -
The Human Rights Commission
They did a report on this horror story and made a number of recommendations for the government -
Corroboree
250000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge to be critical against the Prime Minister's refusal to say sorry to the Indigineous Australians for past wrongs -
Marching
400000 people marched in Melbourne critical of the Prime Minister's refusal to say sorry to the Indigenous Australians for past wrongs -
A Long Way to Go
Many Indigenous Australians are caught in a culture trap between their proud past and modern Australian life