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First Aboriginal rights organisations formed
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Official policy of assimilation of Aboriginal people
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First day of mourning and protest
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WWII ends and United Nations Charter is written
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Pilbara aboriginal pastoral strike Protests against Woomera Rocket Tests
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United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of genecide
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Geneva Convention
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Policy of assimilation of non-British migrants
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Aboriginal protests againts atomic testing at Emu/Maraling sites
This continued up until 1963 -
US Supreme Court ends racially segregated education
Continued until 1955 -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (US) begins
US Civil Rights Movement begins -
Palm Island Strike, Queensland
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Indigenous people gain the right to vote in federal elections
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US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Australain student Freedom Rides
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Wattie Creek land rights battle begins
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Constitutional referendum includes indigionous people in national census and gives Federal Government the power to make laws for indigionous people
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
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UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy Established
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UN Convenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and cultural Rights
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UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
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UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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High Court's Mabo decision
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'Bringing Them Home' report
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Corroboree 2000, Sydney Opera House
Continued until 3 June, 2000 -
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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Official national apology to members of the stolen Generations
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Australia endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities