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Western Australian government report
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early 1960s
Aboriginal adults received pensions and maternity benefits. But inequalities remained in pay, voting, access to facilities , control of children and land rights -
first aboriginal Land rights act
Northern Territory law only gave the indigenous people some areas of arid and largely useless land . Other land claims were often thrown out by the courts. -
tensions in multicultural austalia
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Bringing them home
The stolen generation was one of Australia's worst secrets. Few white people knew about it and it didn't feature in the history books un till 1980s.In 1997 the Humans Rights Commission report on this horror story made a number of recommendations -
Stealing people: The lost genoration
seven year old Lorana Cubillo was seized by officials and thrown into a truck with 15 other aboriginal girls Loran was then taken to a church run foster hon and was later sexually abused. She never saw her mother again authority's wanted to cut the children's from their culture
assimilate them into white society
provided chap labor for white employees
hopefully "bread out the color" as they latter marred whites -
December 19 - 2 of January 2001
In may 2000 250000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and up to 400 000 marched in Melbroune in December. many marchers carried signs and banners critical of the prime ministers refusal to say 'sorry' to indigenous Australians for past wrongs.