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At least 65,000 years ago:
Archaeological evidence
of first peoples on the
Australian continent
c. 1700: Beginning of trade
links between the
Aboriginal people of
northern Australia and
Makasar from Sulawesi
c. 28,000 years ago:
Earliest known rock art
engraved and painted
in the Northern Territory
Welfare–Conference of
Commonwealth and State
Authorities decides that
the official policy for some
Aboriginal people
is assimilation
1930: Victorian Yorta Yorta
man William Cooper petitions
the King to have an Aboriginal
representative in the Federal
House of Representatives
1981: The Aboriginal Law
Bulletin is established.
(Now known as the
Indigenous Law Bulletin)
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Phillip establishes a convict
settlement at Sydney Cove Pemulwuy leads resistance
against Sydney colonists
1816: At least 14 Dharawal
in Sydney (devastating to
the Aboriginal population) people killed in the Appin
massacre
1943: An Exemption
Certificate is introduced,
exempting certain
Aboriginal people from
restrictive legislation but
prohibiting them from
consorting with others
who are not exempt
1953: Atomic tests are conducted
on Maralinga lands, South Australia.
Australian authorities did not discover
the extent of the contamination until
1984, just before the land was to be
returned to its Aboriginal owners.
1949: Aboriginal people are
years after European
occupation the Aboriginal
Progressive Association
declares a Day of Mourning given the right to enrol and
vote at federal elections
provided they are entitled
to enrol for state elections
or have served in the
armed forces
into Aboriginal Deaths in
Custody established
1830: The ‘Black Line’ –
settler force attempts to corral
Aboriginal people on the
Tasman Peninsula
1789: Smallpox breaks out 1938: 26 January: 150
1987: Royal Commission
1985: Australian
Government returns Uluru
to its traditional owners
1792: Aboriginal warrior
1770: Lieutenant James
Cook claims east coast of
Australia for Britain
1937: Aboriginal
1928: Conniston Massacre
1788: Captain Arthur
1989: Legislation is passed
to create an Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Commission
1988: The Barunga Statement is
presented to the Prime Minister
establishing requirements of a treaty
between Aboriginal peoples and the
Government
1837: Report of the
Parliamentary Select Committee
on Aboriginal Tribes generates
discussion about the treatment
of Indigenous people in British
colonies
1962: The Commonwealth
Electoral Act is amended to
give franchise to all
Aboriginal people
1957: Formation of the
NADOC - National Aboriginal
Day Observance Committee
(Later NAIDOC)
1963: Police evict residents
at Mapoon, an Aboriginal
community in far north
Queensland. The people are
forcibly taken to other reserves
and their settlement is burned
down, to allow COMALCO
mine the biggest bauxite
1992: Prime Minister Paul
deposit in the world.
Keating delivers a speech at
Redfern Park recognising the
past and present injustices faced
by Indigenous Australians
1992: The landmark High Court decision in
Mabo (No 2)11 establishes by a 6-1 majority that
Indigenous people retained a radical title over
land which survived colonisation. Native Title
was recognised by the common law of Australia,
overturning the fiction of terra nullius
1996: A majority in the High
Court decide in Wik14 that
pastoral leases can co-exist
with native title