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The modern movement for indigenous rights began in the 1920s when the first Aboriginal political organisations were formed.
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The conference officially adopts a policy of 'assimilation' for Aboriginal people.
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To the Indigenous Australians, the anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet was referred to as a 'Day of Mourning.'
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The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations.
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The Woomera Test Range is a weapons testing range operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Aerospace Operational Support Group, and the people living near it protest against the testing of the weapons.
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These Aboriginal People were protesting against the living conditions that they were forced to live with.
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The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers.
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Non-British migrants are accepted on the understanding that they should reject their cultures and become pure Australians and not of British background.
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The Aboriginal populations protested about the Maralinga atomic test site in the Woomera Prohibited Area, South Australia.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. It lasted 381 days.
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The Indigenous people went on strike to protest against poor health, housing, wages and working conditions, that were enforced under government law.
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Its aim was to campaign, in the country towns of New South Wales, against racial discrimination.
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Wattie Creek was the birthplace of the Aboriginal land-rights movement when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the Gurindji people to grant them deeds to their land.
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Aboriginal people erected the Tent Embassy in 1972 in Canberra to protest against over mining operations on Aboriginal land and represent the political rights of Australian Aborigines.
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Indigenous leaders expressed alarm about the ever-growing number of Indigenous Australians dying in jail, and so a Commission was introduced to solve the problem.
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Eddie Mabo of the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait began action in the High Court of Australia seeking confirmation of their traditional land rights.
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This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by the Stolen Generations.
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It is a week long celebration for everyone in the community to support reconciliation. It is a time to discover a shared heritage, to understand and respect the local indigenous people’s culture, and to make your community a better place to live.
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This was an official apology to the Stolen Generations by Kevin Rudd to the indigenous People of Australia.
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