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On Australia Day 1938, a document called 'Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights' was circulated in a meeting of Aboriginal people in Sydney. This declaration was the first time Aboriginal people had made a national protest. The document was generally about how the Aboriginals ask only for their well-deserved justice, decency, and fair play that they haven't been getting for the past 150 years. -
The first protest by Aboriginal Australians at the Cummeragunja Station. -
The Social Service Benefits Act was modified to include the Aboriginal Australians for the old-age pensions and unemployment benefits. -
After ten years of campaigning, a referendum to change the Australian Constitution was held in 1967. -
This event granted all Aboriginal and Torres Islanders the option to enrol and vote in federal elections. -
A group led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins made a bus tour through New South Wales. They protested about discrimination in shops, theatres, bars, clubs and swimming pools -
This was a strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants, and their families, and it lasted for 7 years. -
After a 90% 'yes' vote the government gave Indigenous Australians the right to vote and be counted in censuses and ended the protection policies. -
A government commission recommended that Aboriginals should get back the land where they now lived and had traditionally lived. -
The Going Home Conference in Darwin brings together over 600 Aboriginal people removed as children to discuss common goals of access to archives, compensation, rights to land and social justice. -
Preamble to the constitutional convention held at Old Parliament House from February 2 to 13 to debate proposals on whether Australia should become a republic supports Indigenous recognition. -
In May 2000 250,000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and up to 400,000 marched in Melbourne in December. Many signs were carried by marchers critical of the Prime Minister's refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs. -
National Library of Australia Oral History Project, Many Voices: Reflections on Experience of Indigenous Child Separation published. -
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized for past Aboriginal mistreatment.