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100,000 Aboriginal children were removed from their families and put into foster homes or mission run by the whites. They did this because they wanted to cut them children off from their culture, assimilate into white society, provide cheap labour for the white employers and hopefully 'breed the colour' our of them as they later married whites.
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on Australia Day 1938 a meeting of Aboriginal people was held in sydney. The document "Aboriginal Claim Citizen Right" was circulated. It was the first declaration Aboriginal people had made a national protest and this was widely reported throughout many papers. -
The awareness of the second-class status of the Indigenous Australians became more obvious to the public as a result of WWII (1939-1945). Many of the Aborigines served in the armed forces and thousands moved into towns to work in wartime industries. This is where White Australians felt that if Aboriginals could fight and die for this country, they deserved a fair go.
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After World War II white attitudes towards the first Australians began to change. During the 1950's the Indigenous Australians were allowed to enrol for voting, drink in hotels and travel without restrictions. By the early 1960's Aboriginal adults receive pensions and maternity benefits. But the inequalities remailed in pay, voting, access to facilities, control of children and land rights.
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A group si led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and made a bus tour through New South Wales. They protested about the discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, clubs, and swimming pools. -
around 200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages and living conditions and their traditional lands back. The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985 -
After the vote, 90% voted a 'yes' for the government to give the Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses and ended the protection police. -
The Embassy said that the blacks are now going to get up and fight back on the issues of the education, heath, police victimisation, locking people up, Bobby Sykes, aboriginal activists. -
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should be able to get back the land where they now live and had traditionally lived. -
In may 2,000,250,000 people walked across of sydney harbour bridge and up to 400,000 marched in melbourne in december. Many marchers carried signs and banners critical of the Prime Minister's refusal to say 'sorry' to the indigenous Australians for the past wrongdoings.
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The Commonwealth Government establishes a memorial for the Stolen Generations at Reconciliation Place in Canberra.
461 ‘Sorry Books’ recording the thoughts of Australians on the unfolding history of the Stolen Generations are inscribed on the Australian Memory of the World Register, part of UNESCO’s programme to protect and promote documentary material with significant historical value. -
The federal government publicly apologises to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia for the forced removals of their children.