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James Cook claims possession of the whole east coast of Australia. Cook raises the British flag at Possession Island, off Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.
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The first fleet lands in port Jackson. British settlement in Australia begins. There are many problems between them and the aboriginal Australians reports over the next 10 years.
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Tasmanian Aboriginal people are resettled on Flinders Island without success. Later, the community is moved to Cape Barren Island.
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Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines is established. The Governor can order the removal of any child to a reformatory or industrial school.
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It is established to manage the lives of 9,000 people.
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allows the Chief Protector to remove local Aboriginal people onto and between reserves and hold children in dormitories. The Director of Native Welfare is the legal guardian of all 'aboriginal' children whether their parents are living or not until 1965.
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The Constitution states that Aboriginal People will not be counted in the census, and that the Commonwealth has the power to make laws relating to any race of people In Australia with the exception of Aborigines.
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Act is passed. Under the act, the Chief Protector is made the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-caste' child under 16 years old. In the following years, other states and territories enact similar laws.
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Gives the Aborigines Protection Board power to assume full control and custody of the child of any Aborigine if a court found the child to be neglected under the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905 (NSW).
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Makes the Chief Protector the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-caste' child.
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This gave power the the Aborigines protection board to be able to remove children without the need to go to court
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Remove indigenous children on cape barren island form their families.
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on the 'native welfare' adopts assimilation as the national policy. For all states
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Australian Aborigines Conference held in Sydney. Meeting on January 26, the 150th Anniversary of NSW, Aborigines mark the 'Day of Mourning'.
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The indigenous board looses it power to remove children. The Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board
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The Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted by the newly-formed United Nations, and was supported by Australia.
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Australians confer power on the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people. Aborigines are included in the census for the first time
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Australians confer power on the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people. Aborigines are included in the census for the first time.
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finally abolished in 1969.
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All the states remove the policy that allowed them to take children. In the following years, Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies are set up to contest removal applications and provide alternatives to the removal of Indigenous children from their families.
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finally abolished.
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Neville Bonner was born in 1922 and died in 1999. He started his early working life as a ringbarker, canecutter and stockman. He later spents 16 years on the repressive Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve where he learned many of the skills that would help him later as a politician. Bonner became the first Aboriginal person in Federal Parliament, representing Queensland as a Liberal Party Senator from 1971 to 1983.
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is pitched outside Parliament House in Canberra to demonstrate for Land Rights. four young Aboriginal men put up a beach umbrella on the lawns outside Parliament House in Canberra and put up a sign which read 'Aboriginal Embassy'. Over the following months, supporters of the embassy black and white were up to 2000.
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The Commonwealth Government passes the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
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Thus act was passed by the commonwealth government. Gave recognition of Aboriginal land ownership, granting land rights to 11, 000 Aboriginal people and enabling other Aboriginal people to lodge a claim for recognition of traditional ownership of their lands.
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Link-Up provides family tracing, reunion and support for forcibly removed children and their families.
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developed principally due to the efforts of Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies (“AICCAs”) during the 1970s, is incorporated in NT welfare legislation to ensure that Indigenous children are placed with Indigenous families when adoption or fostering is necessary. The other states followed later on
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Elections are held and for the first time voting is compulsory for Aboriginal people.
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It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships. Thousands of Indigenous people and supporters march through the streets of Sydney to celebrate cultural and physical survival.
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Parliament noted that there had not been a formal process of reconciliation to date, 'and that it was most desirable that there be such a reconciliation’ by 2001. This was especially need since it was founded that of 99 deaths it investigated in the aboriginal culture, 43 were of people who were separated from their families as children.
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They decides that native title exists over particular kinds of lands – unalienated Crown Lands, national parks and reserves – and that Australia was never terra nullius or empty land.
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The Commonwealth Government passes the Native Title Act 1993. This law allows Indigenous people to make land claims under certain situations. Claims cannot be made on privately-owned land.
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The Going Home Conference in Darwin brings together over 600 Aboriginal people removed as children to discuss common goals of access to archives, compensation, rights to land and social justice.
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Is a report on the findings of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families to the Commonwealth Government. The parliaments and governments of Victoria, Tasmania, ACT, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia all gave out statements recognising and publicly apologising to the ‘Stolen Generations’ and those effected by it.
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is a decision of the High Court of Australia delivered on 23 December 1996 on whether statutory leases extinguish native title rights.
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This means that it resricted the aboriginals could claim native title
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They apologised for removing the aboriginal children from their families. This is the statement released: http://archive.is/cDBpb
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The Committee criticises the Commonwealth Government’s inadequate response to recommendations of the Bringing Them Home Report. Yet the government denied that the stolen generations ever existed.
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The northern territory government gave an apology to people who were removed from their families.
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These reports raised serious concerns about the nations progress in achieving indigenous rights.
Speeches were:
Whatever happened to Reconciliation? Speech by Dr William Jonas at the media conference to launch the Social Justice Report 2001 and the Native Title Report 2001: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/speeches/site-navigation Social Justice Report 2001 – Reconciliation Progress Report: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/social-justice-report-2001-c... -
The first member of the Stolen Generations was awarded compensation, for the sexual assault she was a victim ti while working as a domestic servant for a family and suffering sexual assault and violence.
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner publicly criticises the failure of governments to provide financial and social reparations for members of the Stolen Generation, a national apology for individuals that were forcibly removed to reconnect with their culture.
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The Commonwealth Government establishes a memorial to the Stolen Generations at Reconciliation Place in Canberra.
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The National Sorry Day Committee announces that in 2005, Sorry Day will be a ‘National Day of Healing for All Australians’
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Was set up in Tasmania by the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006
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There were many celebrations on this day. Between the aboriginal community.
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They apologised for the forced removal of children that went on throughout history. Both the government and the opposition support the apology and say ‘sorry’ to Aboriginal people who were taken away from their families from 1900 to the 1970s.
