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After ww2 white attitude towards the first Australians began to change. During the 1950s the indigenous Australians were allowed to :
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By the early 1960s Aboriginals received pensions and maternity benefits. But inequalities remained in pay, voting, access to facilities, control of children and land rights.
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A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Whales. They protested about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, clubs and swimming pools
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200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages and conditions, and their traditional lands back.
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After a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be courted in censuses, and ended the protection policies
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The Embassy said blacks were now going to get up and fight back on issues of education, health, police victimisation, locking people up. Bobby Sykes, Aboriginal activist
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a goverment commison recommended that aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived
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However this Northern Territory law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land. Other land claims were often thrown out by the courts
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The Gurindji eventually gained ownership of the area in 1985
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In 1992 the High Court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist. So the 1993 Native Title Act allowed Indigenous Australians to claimland rights.
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In 1992 the High Court agreed to say that terra nullius was wrong and racist. So the 1993 Native Title Act allowed Indigenous Australians to claim land rights.
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250000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge, many marchers carried signs and banners critical of the Prime Ministers refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs
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40000 people marched in Melbourne in December, many marchers carried signs and banners critical of the Prime Ministers refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs
