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Aboriginal fight for Human Rights

By eva.12345
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    Australia Day

    'Aboriginal Claim Citizen Rights'
  • Period: to

    World War ll

    Many Aborigines served in the armed forces and thousands moved into the towns to work in the wartime industries.

  • Indigenous Australians get the right to vote

    Australian Citizenship Act gives Indigenous Australians the vote in Commonwealth elections if they are enrolled for State elections or have served in the Armed Forces.

  • White voters demand a better deal for first Australians

    After a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses, and ended the protection policies.

  • Land rights to be granted to first Australians

    A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived.