Australian Native Land Rights

By emmalewis

  • Terra Nullius Established

    The concept that the land of Australia was uninhabited at the time of British settlement.
  • Period: to

    British colonial office wanted Australian colonialists to recognise Native Title

  • Period: to

    Indigenous groups begin tp petition for their own right to farming lands in NSW

  • 1967 Referendum

  • Whitlam Announces "Self Determination" Policy

  • First Aboriginal Tent Embassy Erected at Parliament House

  • Fraser passes Aboriginal Land Rights Act

  • Tent Embassy Re-Established

  • Native Title Act Passed (Mabo Decision)

  • Wik Case

    Tension between pastoralists and Indigenous peoples about land rights and ownership.

  • Native Title Amendment Bill