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First Aboriginal Rights were formed in the 1920's-30's
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The official policy of assimilation of Aboriginal people, 21st to the 23rd of April, 1937.
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First Day of Aboriginal Mourning and Protest.
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World War 2 ends and United Nations Charter is written.
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800 Aboriginal workers walk off the job.
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United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted by the newly-formed United Nations and supported by Australia.
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Aboriginal protests against atomic testing at Emu/Maralinga sites, 1953-63
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US Supreme Court ends racially segregated education, 1954-55.
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US Civil Rights movement begins.
Lasted from December 1st, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refussing to give up her seat to a white person, and ended on December 20th, 1956, when a federal ruling took effect, banning segregated buses. -
Queensland.
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Indigenous people gain right to vote in Federal elections.
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US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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Australian students participate in Freedom Rides.
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Wattue Creek land rights battle begins.
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Constituational referendum includes Indigenous people in national census and gives Federal Goverment the power to make laws for Indigenous people.
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Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated.
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UN Convention on the Eliminationof All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy established.
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UN Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
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Royal Comission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
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UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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At the Sydney Opera House.
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UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Official National apology to the members of the Stolen Generations.
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Astralia endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
