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Stolen Generation
The stolen Generation is were aboriginal children were removed from there homes and placed in missions or private homes by the state and federal government.
This is important becuase it was a group of kids who grew up without their familes which resulted in a loss of culture being handed down generations, broken familys and abuse to the children. -
Tent Embassy
A group of aboriginals led by Michael Anderson, Billie Craigie, Bertie Williams and Tony Coorey who wanted rights and land for their own people. Over 2000 people set up a tent "embassy" opposite the parliment house to protest land ownership rights and mining on sacred land in the Northern Territory. It led to the protestors being violently removed and camping on Government grounds being illegal. Aboriginals were still not allowed to own land but were able to lease it. -
The Day of Mourning
Day of Mourning info National protesting on the 150th anniversary of the First Fleet arriving.
Aboriginals did not get involed in the the celebrations by the state for Australia Day.
It was significant becuase the Aboriginals demanded full cititzen rights of the government and it showed how Aboriginals felt about British Colonisation although nothing was done about the protest. -
Granting of the Federal Vote
Timeline Aboriginals were given the rights to vote in federal elections.
This is significant because it allows Aboriginals to have a political voice where they can choose who to be elected, it was a step to eqaulity and political freedom. -
Freedom Riders
Bus Riders A group of students from Sydney University, lead by Charles Perkins, who was the first Aboriginal to graduate. They travelled on a bus to towns in country New South Wales to see how Aboriginals were being treated. They found out Aboriginal people were being sperated from white people and that there was racism and inequality - they protested. it showed the reality for Aboriginals in country towns. -
Referendum
Help Aboriginals
it was a change in australian constitution to remove negitve wording to aboriginals and reconise as full citizens of australia and that the government should have full responsability for they care to any other citizen.
This is important to aboriginal people because they have spent years not getting equal rights as white people and they have being ongoing protesting to earn equal rights -
Vincent Lingiari
VincentVincent Lingiari was a land right activist who wanted land rights ownership for indigenous people.
he staged a walkoff at wave hill station that lasted 8 years.
in 1975 Gough Whitlam poured sand from wave hill into Lingiari hands to symbolise giving of the land.
This is important because it shows the governerment was willing to give ownership of land to the indigenous people. -
Eddie Mabo case
Eddie MaboEddie Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander that took the Government to court in order to gain rights to land. It was a case that lasted 10 years and eventually resulted in a change in Australian land law. The court at first denied Islanders the right to land but it was overturned and in 1992 the Native Title Act gave ownership of the Murray Islands to the Indigenous people and allowed others to sue for land rights anywhere in Australia. -
Paul Keating's Redfern Speech
RedfernPaul Keating as Prime Minister in 1992, spoke to an Indigenous crowd and acknowledged the horrible things that had happened to Indigenous people when the British colony came. It was the first time an important Government figure recognised the diseases and alcohol brought by thw colonisers and stolen generation. It is an important event because it had never been done before and led to other speeches and rights for Aboriginals. -
Bringing Them Home
Stolen GenerationA report made about the Stolen Generation, it looked at what had happened to the Aboriginal people during 1910-1970 when their children had been taken and moved to other places without permission. The report had 54 recommendations to help towards compensating the Aborignals for what had been done. It made public all the awful things that had been done to the Aboriginal people and set up the Government to have to make payments and apologise for the Stolen Generation. -
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
The declaration of rights of Indigenous people is a speech made by the UN to stop human rights abuse towards the Indigenous people and in the speech are all the rights that aboriginals gained from the government.
This is important becuase it shows how important the aboriginals really are and how we abused the indigenous people and how long the aboriginals were fighting for rights for their own people. -
Kevin Rudd's Apology
ApologyKevin Rudd apology is toward the aboriginals stolen generation and all the wrong doing the government has profounded toward the aboriginals inflicting pain toward most aborignials and family memeber that were lost during the generation
This is important becuase the government has never made a apology toward the Aboriginal people and it shows that aboriginals are respected people.
