Aboriginal Fight For Human Right.

By GeorgiaHussey
  • Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights.

    Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights.

    On Australia day a meeting for Aboriginal people was held. A document called Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights was circulated. The declaration was the first time Aboriginal people had made a national protest. Many White Australians started taking notice of their plight.
  • The War

    The War

    The awareness of the second-class status become more obvious to the public as a result of World War II. Many White Australians felt that if Aboriginals could fight and die for their country they deserved a fair go.
  • Changing Attitudes

    Changing Attitudes

    After World War II white attitudes towards the first Australians began to change. Indigenous Australians started to be allowed to enroll for voting, drink in hotels, and travel without restrictions.
  • Better Treatment

    Better Treatment

    Aboriginal adults recieved pensions and maternity benefits. But inequalities remained in pay, voting, access to facilities, control of children, and land rights.
  • Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment

    Freedom Riders Demand Equal Treatment

    A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a tour through New South Wales. Protesting about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, and more.
  • Gurindji People Demand A Better Deal

    Gurindji People Demand A Better Deal

    200 workers walked off the Wave Hill Cattle. They wanted better wages and conditions and their traditional lands back
  • White Voters Demand A Better Deal For First Australians

    White Voters Demand A Better Deal For First Australians

    After 90 percent 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

    Aboriginal Tent Embassy Set Up In Canberra

    The embassy said that blacks were now going to get up and fight back on the issues of education, health, and locking people up. The Aboriginal activist Bobby Skyes.
  • Land Right Be Granted to First Australians

    Land Right Be Granted to First Australians

    A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they live now and had traditionally lived.
  • Walk Of Reconciliation

    Walk Of Reconciliation

    250 000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and up to 400 000 marched in Melbourne in December. The marches involved were of many ages and races. They were an increasing concern about the need to apologize for past treatment toward Aboriginal people, to improve their living standards and other things.
  • Twenty Twenty Protest

    Twenty Twenty Protest

    Demonstrators attend a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protestors and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody in Sydney, Australia