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H - Aboriginal Rights Flashcards

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1
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What year did Captain Cook claim Australia?

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1770

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What day did the first fleet arrive?

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26th Jan 1788

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When were the first aboriginal political organisations formed?

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1920s

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What did the AAPA stand for?

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Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association

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Who was the AAPA formed by?

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Fred Maynard

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Where and When was the AAPA formed?

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NSW 1924

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Who was Fred Maynard inspired by?

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Black US activists

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What did the AAPA want?

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Aboriginals land rights and to stop aboriginal children from being taken

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What year did the AAPA disband?

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1927

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What year was the APA formed?

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1937

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What did the APA organise?

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Street rallies, publicised meetings, letter writing campaigns and petitions

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Where was the APA formed?

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NSW

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What did the APA want?

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full citizen rights, representation in parliament and the removal of the Aborigines Protection Board.

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When was the APA’s silent protest?

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26th Jan 1938

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Where was the APA’s silent protest?

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150th Australia Day Anniversary Parade

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What did APA stand for?

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Aborigines Progressive Association

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What happened after the day of morning protest?

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20 Indigenous people giving the prime minister a 10 point plan for equality

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When did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people gain the right to vote in federal elections?

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1962

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When was Charles Perkins born?

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1936

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Where was Charles Perkins born?

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Aboriginal Reserve

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Who was Charles Perkins inspired by?

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US freedom rides

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What did Charles Perkins organise?

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A freedom ride

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What day was Charles Perkins Freedom Ride?

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12th Feb 1965

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Who participated in the freedom ride?

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30 white students

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Where did the freedom ride tour?
outback NSW
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What was the freedom ride supposed to be?
study tour of race relations
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What did the freedom ride see?
poverty, unsanitary living conditions and racial discrimination
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What did the Freedom Riders experience while on their journey?
attacks from locals
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When was racial segregation being challenged overseas?
1960s
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When was the Commonwealth Electoral Act amended to allow Indigenous people to enrol to vote?
March 1962
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What year did it become compulsory for Indigenous people to vote?
1971
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What day was the referendum held?
27th May 1967
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What were the referendum questions?
should Indigenous people be counted in the census and should Indigenous people be moved under the commonwealth.
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How many votes in favour did the referendum receive?
90.7%
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What did 1800s land rights require as evidence to give land rights.
fencing, farming or settlement
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When did the land rights movement begin?
1963
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Who began the land rights movement?
Yolngu people of Yirrkala
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What did the Yolngu people send to federal parliament?
a bark petition signed by 17 aboriginal leaders
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What did the bark petition say?
protested against mining on their traditional land
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When did the Yolngu people challenge the Northern Territory Supreme Court?
1968
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What did Prime Minister McMahon claim that Indigenous land rights would do in 1972?
threaten the tenure of every Australia
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What made Aboriginal Activists put a beach umbrella on parliament house lawn?
Prime Minister McMahon's speech
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When did aboriginal activists put a beach umbrella on parliament house lawn?
1972
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Where did aboriginal activists put the beach umbrella?
parliament house lawn
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What did the sign say on the beach umbrella?
Aboriginal Embassy
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What was the effect of the beach umbrella?
lots of tents and activists on parliament ground
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What did the tent embassy activists want?
Aboriginal land rights
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Who owned the Wave Hill cattle station?
Lord Vestey
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How long was the Wave Hill walk out strike?
8 years
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What was the first successful land rights case in Australia?
Wave Hill walk out
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Where was the Wave Hill cattle station built?
Gurindji land
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Why did the Indigenous workers strike?
low pay, bad working conditions, racist treatment and poor living conditions
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When were the previous Gurindji strikes?
1949, 1952 and 1955
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What day was the Wave Hill walk out?
23 August 1966
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How many Indigenous stockman, domestic servants and their families walked out?
200
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Who led the Gurindji strike?
Vincent Lingiari
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Who was Vincent Lingiari?
Gurindji elder
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Where did the strike group move?
Wattie Creek and Daguragu
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What did Lord Vestey do when he heard about the strike?
send an anti slavery society member to asses the situation
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What did Vestey offer the Gurindji people?
half his area
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Why was Vestey's offer declined by the government?
Indigenous land rights weren't recognised
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What did the government offer the Gurindji people instead of their land back?
higher pay and new houses
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What did the Gurindji strike participants want?
ownership of their traditional land
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What arose in 1966-1967 because of the Wave Hill strike?
strikes across NT
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What day did Prime Minister Gough Whitlam return Gurindji traditional land?
16 August 1975
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What year did a group of Indigenous Mer Islanders challenge the government to return ownership of Mer Island to its islanders?
1982
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Who was the Mer Island group led by?
Eddie Koiki Mabo
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Did the Queensland Supreme Court rule for or against the Meriam Islanders?
Against
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What year did the Meriam islanders appeal to the Australian High Court?
1992
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What day did the Australian High Court approve Torres Strait Islander native title?
3 June 1992
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What day did the Australian High Court approve Torres Strait Islander native title?
3 June 1992
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What was the High Court native title decision called?
Mabo decision
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When and where was Eddie Mabo born?
1936 Mer Island

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