ABORIGINAL CONFERENCE DAY OF MOURNINGAustralian Hall Sydney
Cummeragunja Walk off
We have traveled from Murray Darling River into Northern Victoria.
Australian Freedom Ride
Student Action For Aborigines
The Day of Mourning 26th January 1938 was a protest held by Jack Patten and Aboriginal Australians at the Australian Hall Sydney. It was commenced to raise media awareness of their difficulty to the non-Indigenous Australians, in order to gain support to dismantle the Protection Board and gain full citizen rights to the Indigenous people of Australia.
Referendum 1967
Right Wrongs WriteYES
The Cummeraganja Walk-Off was a protest by the Aboriginal Australian at Cummeraganja station that happened on 4th February, 1939. It commenced to address the poor living conditions and management of the station. The protesters crossed Murray Darling into Northern Victoria where they built a strike camp on the river bank of Barmah. This protest brought about changes to the Aborigines Protection Act of NSW.
Paul Keating's Redfern Address
We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers.
The Freedom Ride is a form of activism that was executed on 12th February 1965 to expose racism throughout regional towns in NSW. It was led by Charles Perkins and his mutual mates from University of Sydney. It was inspired by the American Freedom Ride which occurred in 1960. The Freedom ride led to the referendum for Aboriginal people to gain the right to use the swimming pool with the white people.
Bringing Them Home report
The 1967 Referendum was conducted prior to the lack of rights and freedom for the ATSI people. The referendum consists of 2 constitution changes relating to the ATSI people and 90.77% of white people voted yes for the cause of inclusion of the ATSI people as Australian's and removing special laws implemented for only ATSI people.
Aborigines!On May 27
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Paul Keating's Redfern address was on 10th December 1992. This speech was advanced to offer reconciliation to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and acknowledged the dispossession and stolen generations of the past. This was the first acknowledgement from the commonwealth government on the dispossession and it hugely impacted the first nations people by effectively reconciling.
Redfern
The Bringing Them Home report was published in 1997 by Ronald Wilson. It was a report that acknowledged the pain of