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Freedom riders demand equal treatment
In 1965 a group led by aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Wales. People protested about discrimination in shops, teaters,bars, clubs and swimming pools. -
Gurindji People Demand A Better Deal
In 1966 200 workers walked off the wave hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted Better wages and conditions, and their traditional lands back. The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985. -
White Voters Demand A Better Deal For First Australians
In 1967 AFter a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses, and ended the protection policies. -
Aboriginal Tent Embassy Set Up In Canberra
The embassy said that blacks were now going to get up and fight back on the issue of education, health, police victimisation, locking people up. Bobby Skyes, Aboriginal activist -
Land Rights To Be Granted To First Australians.
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lives. -
First Aboriginal Land Rights Act.
However this northern Territory law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land. Other land claims were often thrown out by the courts.The Act was strongly based on the recommendations of Justice Woodward, who chaired the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission. -
Indigenous Australian leaders Gain Greater Respect
Indigenous Australians leaders are gaining greater respect and the marches in 2000 showed that Australians of all races want the first people to get a better deal. Some are national heroes and there was great pride when Cathy Freeman won the 400 meters at the olympics.
