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The first British settlers arrived in Sydney. The relationship between them and the natives were relatively friendly. -
Governor Phillip was wounded by an Aboriginal due to a misunderstanding -
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 -
150 Tasmanian Aboriginal people had been moved to Flinders Island in the Bass Strait for their safety -
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. -
The last of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people die -
150000 people gathered in Sydney to celebrate the creation of a country: Australia. There were no Aboriginal Australians present. -
Native prisoners were being chained by the neck, children used as slave labour and starvation rations being given out -
Thousands of children with mixed European and Aboriginal descent were stolen from their families and many ended up in mission schools -
The death of a white mining prospector at Coniston Station resulted in about 100 Aborigines being killed by police. -
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 -
Many Aborigines served in the armed forces for WW2 and thousands moved into the towns to work in wartime industries -
Most were under the control of Protection and Welfare Boards, many were not paid, could not vote and were not regarded as Australian citizens -
A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Wales and protested about Aboriginal discrimination -
200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station for better wages, conditions and their traditional land back. -
90% voted yes for the Aboriginal people for their right to vote and ended the protection policies -
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 -
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and traditionally lived -
This law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land -
The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the Wave Hill cattle station area -
The High Court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist -
This allowed Indigenous Australians to claim land rights -
Cathy Freeman carries both the Australiana and Indigenous flags -
They did a report on this horror story and made a number of recommendations for the government -
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 -
400000 people marched in Melbourne critical of the Prime Minister's refusal to say sorry to the Indigenous Australians for past wrongs -
Many Indigenous Australians are caught in a culture trap between their proud past and modern Australian life