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Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights
On Australia Day 1938, a document called 'Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights' was circulated in a meeting of Aboriginal people in Sydney. This declaration was the first time Aboriginal people had made a national protest. The document was generally about how the Aboriginals ask only for their well-deserved justice, decency, and fair play that they haven't been getting for the past 150 years. -
Cummeragunja Walk-Off
The first protest by Aboriginal Australians at the Cummeragunja Station. -
Social Service Benefits
The Social Service Benefits Act was modified to include the Aboriginal Australians for the old-age pensions and unemployment benefits. -
Referendum
After ten years of campaigning, a referendum to change the Australian Constitution was held in 1967. -
Commonwealth Electoral Act
This event granted all Aboriginal and Torres Islanders the option to enrol and vote in federal elections. -
Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment
A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Wales. They protested about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, clubs and swimming pools -
Wave Hill Walk-Off
This was a strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants, and their families, and it lasted for 7 years. -
White Voters Demand a Better Deal for First Australians
After a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses and ended the protection policies. -
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 lived. -
The Going Home Conference
The Going Home Conference in Darwin brings together over 600 Aboriginal people removed as children to discuss common goals of access to archives, compensation, rights to land and social justice. -
Support for Preamble Recognition
Preamble to the constitutional convention held at Old Parliament House from February 2 to 13 to debate proposals on whether Australia should become a republic supports Indigenous recognition. -
The Bulletin Australia
In May 2000 250,000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and up to 400,000 marched in Melbourne in December. Many signs were carried by marchers critical of the Prime Minister's refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs. -
Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation Published
National Library of Australia Oral History Project, Many Voices: Reflections on Experience of Indigenous Child Separation published. -
Apology for the Stolen Generations
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized for past Aboriginal mistreatment.