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Australia was declared Terra Nullius, which means ‘Nobody’s Land’. This meant that the land of Australia belonged to no one discrediting the Indigenous peoples who’ve been there for generations. -
The white Australia policy was a law that forbid all non-Europeans to enter the country of Australia in efforts to create a complete white society. -
Jack Patten, Bill Ferguson as secretary along with William Cooper had formed this group with three aims: to get Aboriginal Australians full citizenship rights, to get Aboriginal representation in the Parliament and lastly to stop the New South Wales Aborigines’ Protection Board. -
The assimilation policy was a way to get the Aboriginal Australians to into white society, this came through methods such as taking their children from them and placing them into white families.
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The Day of Mourning was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians due to the event that took place on January 26th, 1788, when Captain Arthur Philip took the land in New South Wales from the indigenous. -
After the day of Mourning a meeting was held with the Prime Minister where they agreed to receive a deputation of the delegates. This meeting lead onto major reforms and eventually to the 1967 referendum. -
The referendum allowed the counting of Aboriginal people in the national census and allowed commonwealth to tule over state for them. -
National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADIOC) a committee to support Aboriginal Australians was formed, it had support from multiple Aboriginal groups, state and federal government as well as a plethora of church groups. -
The NAIDOC week is a week which is put in place to raise awareness on Aboriginal and Islander peoples and their history, culture and achievements.
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Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister at the time made a speech apologizing to Indigenous people especially at the stolen generation which started national sorry day, on May 26th each year.
