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First Aboriginals Rights Organisation Formed CE
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Official Policy CE
Of Assimilation of Aboriginal People. -
First Day of Mourning and Protest CE
The Day of Mourning was led by three Aboriginal men: William Cooper, William Ferguson and Jack Patten. It began with a march at Sydney's Town Hall, involving both Aboriginals and non-Indigenous supporters. The march was supposed to end there and be followed by a Day of Mourning however the Aboriginal people were denied access. -
First meeting of the United Nations
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World War Two Ends WE
United Nations Charter is written. -
Protests against Woomera Rocket Tests CE
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Pilbara Aboriginal Pastoral Strike CE
Hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral workers left their work for better pay and conditions, paralysing sheep stations. The strike was organised with no phones or radios and lasted until 1949, the longest strike in Australia’s history. -
United Nations Convention WE
On the prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. -
Universial Declaration of Human Rights CE
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Geneva Convention WE
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Policy of Assimlation of Non-Brittish Migrants CE
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Aboriginal Protests CE
Against atomic testing at Emu/Maralinga sites. -
Brown vs Board of Education
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US Supreme Court WE
Ends racially segregated education. -
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Boycott of segregated bus system
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Montgomery Bus Boycott (US) CE
US Civil Rights Movement Begins. -
Intergration of Central High School
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Palm Island Strike, Queensland CE
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First lunch-counter sit-in
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African-American students and cicil rights workers sit in white section of bus station
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Indigenous People CE
Gain the right to vote in Federal Elections. -
Intergration of the University of Mississippi
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March on Washington
"I Have a Dream' speech by Martin Luther King Jr -
Murder of NAACP ledger Medgar Evers
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Campaign to de-segregate
Four girls are killed in the bombing of a church -
US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. WE
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De-segregation Campaign collusion of city police and KKK exposed
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Murder of three civil rights workers
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March for voting rights to Montgomery
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Australian Student Freedom Rides CE
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Constitutional Referendum CE
Includes Indigenous people in national cenus and gives Federal Goverment the power to make laws for Indigenous people. -
Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated. WE
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UN Convention WE
On the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination. -
Aboriginal Tent Embassy Established CE
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UN Convent CE
On Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. -
UN Covenant CE
On Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. -
UN Convention WE
On the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. -
Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody CE
The Royal Commission was established in because of a growing public concern that the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody were too common and poorly explained. -
UN Convention WE
On the Rights of the Child. -
High Court Mabo Decision CE
The judgments of the High Court in the Mabo case inserted the legal doctrine of native title into Australian law. -
Wattie Creek Land Rights Battle Begins CE
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Bringing Them Home Report CE
A tribrute to all the Torres Strait Islanders and Indigenous Australians forcibly removed from their families and homes. -
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Corrobree 2000, Sydney Opera House CE
A united Australia, which respects this land of ours; values the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage; and provides justice and equity for all. Direct quote. -
UN Declaration of Indigenous People WE
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Officail National Apology to Members of the Stolen Generations CE
At the first session of the 2008 Federal Parliament the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an official apology to the Stolen Generations. -
Australia endores UN Declaration WE
On the Rights of Indigenous People. -
UN Convention WE
On the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
