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Aboriginal Rights
First aboriginal rights organisation formed in 1920 - 1930's -
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Aboriginal Rights
Aboriginal Rights over the past century. -
Police Brutality Against Aboriginals
11 Aboriginals murdered by Police in their custody. No charges were pressed against the police. -
Aboriginal People Denied Rights
Aboriginal people are excluded from family endowment and instead payments go to Aborigines Protection Board. Aboriginal people are denied pension and are also banned from central Perth until 1948 -
Western Australia sides with Equal Rights
Western Australia Aborigines Act making it that Aboriginal people cannot be taken in to custody without any reason or permit. -
Assimilation Policy
Assimilation policy means that Aboriginal people with mixed ethnicities are to be put under the white society by force. Aboriginal people that are not living tribally are to be educated ot put on reserves. -
Rights and Freedoms 2: Aboriginal poeple strike back.
Aboriginal people need a certificate to be educated, they are fed up with the ill treatment and go on a strike. -
Atomic Testing
Atomic tests are conducted on Maralinga lands at Emu Field, South Australia. They are code named Operation Totem. A black cloud passes and hundreds of families are forced to leave their homelands because of severe contamination. Further atom tests followed in 1956 -
Intergration Policy
Integration policy is introduced, supposedly to give Aboriginal people more control over their lives and society.
Northern Territory patrol officers ‘bring in’ the last group of Aboriginal people - the Pintubi people - living independently in the desert. They are relocated to Papunya and Yuendumu, about 300 kms north-west of Alice Springs. -
Commonwealth Referendum
In the Commonwealth 1967 Referendum more than 90% vote to empower the Commonwealth to legislate for all Aboriginal people and open means for them to be counted in the census. Hopes fly high that constitutional discrimination will end. It also empowers the federal government to legislate for Aboriginal people in the states and share responsibility for Aboriginal affairs with state governments. All states except Queensland abandon laws and policies that discriminate against Aboriginal people. -
Aboriginal Welfare
Aborigines Welfare Board in NSW is abolished. By 1969 all states have repealed the legislation allowing for the removal of Aboriginal children under the policy of ‘protection’. In the following years, Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies (AICCAs) are set up to contest removal applications and provide alternatives to the removal of Indigenous children from their families.
