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A meeting of Aboriginal people was held. A document called 'Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights' was circulated. This was the first time a protest was mad by the Aboriginal people. -
The general public became more aware of the second-class status of the Aboriginals as a result of WWII. Many Aboriginals served in the army or moved into town to work in wartime industries. (1939-45) -
Most Aboriginals were under the control of Protection or Welfare Boards. They would choose where the Aboriginals could live, travel, work, and more. Many were not paid in any form. Thousands of children were being taken from parents. -
7 year old girl named Lorna Cubillo was seized and taken from her mother with 15 other Aboriginal girls. She was taken to a church-run foster home where she was sexually abused and never got to see her mother again. About 100,000 Aboriginals children were taken the authorities goal was to cut off the culture and 'breed out the culture' This lasted from -
Charles Perkins, an Aboriginal activist leader of a group made a bus tour through New South Wales. They protested about discrimination in shops, bars, clubs, theaters, and swimming pools -
200 workers walked off the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. They wanted better wages, conditions and their traditional land back -
After a 90% yes the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote -
The Embassy said blacks were now going to get up and fight on issues such as education, health and police victimization. -
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived. -
She carried the Australian and Indigenous Australian flags at the 1994 Common Wealth games -
