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1838: Myall Creek
massacre, NSW
1898: Haddon Anthropological
Expedition makes first film of
Meriam (Murray Islanders)
1863: South Sea Islanders
brought to Queensland as
indentured labourers
1965: Charles Perkins leads
a freedom ride by Aboriginal
people and students through
north-western New South
Wales in support of Aboriginal
rights and to raise awareness
of discrimination
1909: The NSW Aborigines
enshrined in law Protection Act is introduced
1901: Inauguration of the
Commonwealth of Australia
1967: After ten years of campaigning, a
referendum on Indigenous recognition in
the Australian constitution is held. Nearly
91 per cent of the electorate voted to
amend the constitution, reflecting public
recognition of Aboriginal people as full
Australian citizens
1966: Gurindji strike
(or Wave Hill Walk-Off)
led by Vincent Lingiari
1997: The Bringing Them
Home report examines the
Stolen Generations and
makes recommendations for
addressing past injustices and
improving the present welfare of
Indigenous Australians
1901: White Australia policy
1901: Pacific Island Labourers
Act leads to the deportation
of most of the 10,000 Pacific
Islanders working in Australia
1970: Aboriginal Legal
Service was established in
Redfern and was the first
agency to provide specialist
legal assistance to
Aboriginal people
1968: Remains of Mungo Lady
found. Human bones around the now
dry Lake Mungo in south-western
New South Wales. It was discovered
that she had been ritually buried
1999: Referendum on
whether Australia should
become a republic is lost
Kimberley region in
Northern Australia
1915: The NSW Aborigines
Protection Board is given
powers to remove Aboriginal
children without a court hearing
1976: Pat O’Shane graduates
197 2: Aboriginal Tent
Embassy established in
front of Parliament House,
Canberra
1971: Australia’s first Aboriginal
community-controlled health
service established in Redfern,
Sydney
2002: In Yorta Yorta the test for Native
Title claims is made narrower, requiring
acknowledgment and observance of substantially
unchanged laws and customs on a substantially
uninterrupted basis since sovereignty
1922: Sturt Massacre in the
from UNSW. She is the first
Indigenous person to graduate
from UNSW and Australia’s
first Indigenous law graduate
1975: Racial Discrimination
Act passed
2017: The National Constitutional Convention releases Uluru Statement
from the Heart, which is a call for the establishment of a First Nations
Voice in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to
supervise a process of agreement-making and ‘truth-telling’ between
governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
2008: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a
formal apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples,
particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives
had been blighted by past government policies of
forced child removal and Indigenous assimilation
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