the fight for aboriginal human rights By lodgelaila0911 1938 aboriginal claim citizen rights Period: 1939 to 1945 world war II 1945 immigration department was set up Period: 1958 to 1974 white Australia policy was phased out 1965 freedom riders demand equal treatment 1966 gurindji people demand a better deal 1967 white voters demand a better deal for first australians 1972 aboriginal tent embassy set up in canberra 1974 lands rights to be granted to first australians 1975 first aboriginal land rights act 1992 high court agreed saying that terra nullius was wrong and racist 1993 native title act allowed indigenous Australians to claim land rights 1994 Cathy freeman carrying the Australian and indigenous Australian flags at the commonwealth games 2001 the bulletin
