Indigenous Rights Milestones

By nickschmidhauser

  • Day of Mourning

    Day of Mourning 1938. On 26 January 1938, as Australians celebrated the sesquicentenary of European settlement, about 100 Aboriginal men, women and children gathered in a hall at 150–152 Elizabeth Street in Sydney, known as the Australian Hall
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    Commonwealth and States right to vote for for Aboriginal people campaigns

    People campaigned to give Aboriginals the right to vote

  • Freedom Ride through rural NSW

    Freedom ride to demonstrate the racism in Australia

  • Wave Hill Walk Off

    200 Aboriginal Stockmen went on strike.

  • Referendum - Aboriginals included in census

    Aboriginal people were recognised in the census

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    The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a semi-permanent assemblage claiming to represent the political rights of Aboriginal Australians