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The NSW Aborigines Protection Board loses its power to remove Indigenous children. The Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board and is finally abolished in 1969.
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In the Northern Territory, Aboriginal stock workers protest against their living conditions in the Wave Hill Walk Off
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A national referendum is held to amend the Constitution. Australians confer power on the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people. Aborigines are included in the census for the first time.
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Neville Bonner is sworn in as Australia’s first Aboriginal Senator.
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The Commonwealth Government passes the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
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The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act is passed by Commonwealth Parliament in 1976. It provides for recognition of Aboriginal land ownership, granting land rights to 11, 000 Aboriginal people and enabling other Aboriginal people to lodge a claim for recognition of traditional ownership of their lands.
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Northern Territory elections are held and for the first time voting is compulsory for Aboriginal people.
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The Bicentennial of British Settlement in Australia takes place. Thousands of Indigenous people and supporters march through the streets of Sydney to celebrate cultural and physical survival.
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The Commonwealth Government establishes a memorial to the Stolen Generations at Reconciliation Place in Canberra.
