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C.E. First Aboriginal rights organisation formed
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C.E. Official policy of assimilation of Aboriginal people
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C.E. First day of mourning and protest
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W.E. United nations charter is written
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W.E. World war II ends and united nations charter is written
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C.E. Protests against woomera rocket tests
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C.E. Pilbara Aboriginal pastoral strike
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C.E. Universal declaration of human rights
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W.E. United nations convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide
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W.E. Geneva convention
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C.E. Policy of assimilation of non British migrants
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C.E. Aboriginal protests against atomic testing at Emu/Maralinga sites
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W.E. U.S. supreme court ends racially segregated education
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C.E. US civil rights movement begins
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C.E. Montgomery bus boycott (US) begins
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C.E. Palm island strike, Queensland
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C.E. Indigenous people gain right to vote in federal elections
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W.E. U.S.president John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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C.E. Australian student freedom rides
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C.E. Wattie creek land rights battle begins
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C.E. Constitutional referandum includes Indigenous people in the national census and gives federal government the power to make laws for indigenous people
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W.E. Martin luther king Jnr is assassinated
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W.E. U.N. convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
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C.E. Aboriginal tent embassy established
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C.E. US covenants on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights
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W.E. U.N. convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
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C.E. royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody
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W.E. U.N. convention on the rights of the child
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C.E. High court's mabo decision
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C.E. Bringing them home report
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C.E. Corroboree 2000, Sydney Opera house
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W.E. U.N. declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
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C.E. Official national apology to members of the stolen generations
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W.E. Australia endorses U.N. declaration an the rights of Indigenous peoples
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W.E. U.N. convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
