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C.E: 1st Aboriginal rights organisations formed.
The modern movement for indigenous rights began in the 1920s when the first Aboriginal political organisations were formed. -
C.E: Official policy of assimilation of Aboriginal people
The conference officially adopts a policy of 'assimilation' for Aboriginal people. -
C.E: 1st day of mourning
To the Indigenous Australians, the anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet was referred to as a 'Day of Mourning.' -
W.E: WWII ends and United Nations Charter is written.
The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations. -
C.E: Protests against Woomera Rocket Tests.
The Woomera Test Range is a weapons testing range operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Aerospace Operational Support Group, and the people living near it protest against the testing of the weapons. -
C.E: Pilbara Aboriginal Pastoral Strike.
These Aboriginal People were protesting against the living conditions that they were forced to live with. -
W.E: U.N convention on the Preventation and Punishment of the crime of Genocide.
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C.E: Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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W.E: Geneva Convention
The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers. -
C.E Policy of Assimilation of Non-British Migrants
Non-British migrants are accepted on the understanding that they should reject their cultures and become pure Australians and not of British background. -
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C.E: Aboriginal protests against atomic testing at Emu/Maralinga sites.
The Aboriginal populations protested about the Maralinga atomic test site in the Woomera Prohibited Area, South Australia. -
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W.E: US 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
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. It lasted 381 days. -
C.E: Palm Island Strike, Queensland.
The Indigenous people went on strike to protest against poor health, housing, wages and working conditions, that were enforced under government law. -
C.E: Indigenous people gain right to vote in federal elections.
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W.E: US President John F.Kennedy is assassinated.
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C.E: Australian student Freedom rides
Its aim was to campaign, in the country towns of New South Wales, against racial discrimination. -
C.E: Wattie Creek land rights battle begins
Wattie Creek was the birthplace of the Aboriginal land-rights movement when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the Gurindji people to grant them deeds to their land. -
C:E: Constitutional referendum includes indigenous people in Federal Government.
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W.E: Martin Luther King is assassinated.
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W.E: UN convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination.
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C.E: Aboriginal Tent Embassy established.
Aboriginal people erected the Tent Embassy in 1972 in Canberra to protest against over mining operations on Aboriginal land and represent the political rights of Australian Aborigines. -
C.E: UN Convention on Civil, Political, Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
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W.E: UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women.
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C.E: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Indigenous leaders expressed alarm about the ever-growing number of Indigenous Australians dying in jail, and so a Commission was introduced to solve the problem. -
W.E: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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C.E: High Court Mabo decision.
Eddie Mabo of the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait began action in the High Court of Australia seeking confirmation of their traditional land rights. -
C.E: Bringing Them Home report.
This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by the Stolen Generations. -
C.E: Corroboree 2000, Sydney Opera House
It is a week long celebration for everyone in the community to support reconciliation. It is a time to discover a shared heritage, to understand and respect the local indigenous people’s culture, and to make your community a better place to live. -
W.E: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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C.E: Official national apology to the Stolen Generation.
This was an official apology to the Stolen Generations by Kevin Rudd to the indigenous People of Australia. -
W.E: Australia endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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W,E: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
