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First aboriginal rights organisations formed
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Official policy of assimilation of aboriginal people
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first day of mourning and protest
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World war II ends and united nations charter is written
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Protests against woomera rocket tests
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Pilbara aboriginal pastoral strike
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Universal declaration of human rights
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Geneva convention
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Policy of assimilation of non-british migrants
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Aboriginal protests against atomic testing at Emu/maralinga sites
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US supreme court ends racially segregated education
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Montgomery Bus boycott (US) begins US civil rights movement begins in 1955 and end 1965.
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Palm Island strike, 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 student freedom rides
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Wattle Creek land rights battle begins
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Constitutional referendum includes indigenous people in national census and gives federal government 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 elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
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Aboriginal tent embassy established
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UN convenants on civil and political rights and on economic, s
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UN convention on the elimination of all forms of discriminstion against women
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Royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody
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UN convention on the rights of the child
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High courts mabo decision
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Bringing them home report
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Corroboree 200, sydney opera house
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UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people
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John howard says "sorry".
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Australia endorses UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people
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UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
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United nations convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide
