-
When the European settlers arrived in Australia the Aboriginals fought against them to keep their land. Pemulwy speared and killed the governor's game keeper John Mcintyre because he had killed many Aboriginals.
-
The Aborigines Progressive Association were the ones who helped to organize the day of mourning protest in1938. They had three aims in the association.
1.full citizenship rights for Aboriginal Australians
2.Aboriginal representation in Parliament
3.abolition of the New South Wales Aborigines' Protection Board -
Aboriginal people were forced to leave their ways of life and adapt to the white mans way of life. They were forced to live in the white society.
-
This was a protest held by the Aboriginals to fight for equality.
-
More than 800 Indigenous workers walked off the job in protest because they had lack of personal freedom, poor pay (often only rations) and sub-standard living conditions.
-
-
The plan for the freedom ride was organised by students at the University of Sydney to show the public the poor state that Aboriginals were living in. Aboriginals were living in poor housing, they had poor education and poor health
-
-
Aboriginal people were excluded from the censuses that occured every 5 years until 1971
-
-
-
-
The Royal Commision into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was a study that was conducted to find out why so many Aboriginals were dying in the gaols
-
More than 40,000 people including Aboriginals staged a march demanding for land rights. They walked through Sydney and finished at Hyde Park where activists and Aboriginal leaders spoke.
