Who am I?
I was a university student who led the 1965 Freedom Ride through regional NSW.
Charles Perkins
This 1938 protest was deliberately held on the 150th anniversary of British colonisation.
Day of Mourning
The Freedom Riders challenged this practice in places such as pools, cinemas and clubs.
The Day of Mourning occurred in this year.
1938
The Day of Mourning was significant because it demonstrated that Aboriginal people were doing this rather than passively waiting for reform.
I was a Yorta Yorta activist who founded the Australian Aborigines’ League and petitioned King George V.
William Cooper
This 1965 campaign travelled through NSW towns to expose racial discrimination and segregation.
Freedom Ride
The Gurindji campaign began partly over poor pay and these conditions experienced by Aboriginal workers.
The Freedom Ride occurred in this year.
1965
Television and newspaper coverage made the Freedom Ride particularly effective because it did this.
Exposing racism to a wider Australian audience.
I became the first Aboriginal person elected to the Australian Parliament in 1971.
Neville Bonner
This protest began when Gurindji workers walked off Wave Hill cattle station in 1966.
Gurindji Strike
The Gurindji campaign increasingly shifted from wages towards this broader demand.
land rights
The Wave Hill Walk-Off began in this year.
1966
The Wave Hill Walk-Off demonstrates that a protest can change its aims over time because it shifted from industrial concerns towards this issue.
Challenged Terra Nullius by attempting to establish land rights.
I was a Gurindji leader closely associated with the Wave Hill Walk-Off and the campaign for land rights.
Vincent Lingiari
This protest site was established outside Parliament House in Canberra in January 1972.
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The Tent Embassy highlighted Aboriginal demands for land rights and recognition of this continuing political concept.
Sovereignty
The Referendum overwhelmingly supported constitutional change concerning Aboriginal Australians in this year.
1967
The Tent Embassy’s location directly opposite Parliament House made it especially powerful because it confronted this institution.
Australian Federal Government
In 1988, I symbolically claimed England for Aboriginal Australia in response to British colonisation.
Burnum Burnum
Tens of thousands marched in Sydney during this national anniversary in 1988 to challenge celebrations of colonisation.
1988 Bicentennial protests
By the 1970s–80s, activists increasingly demanded the right for First Nations peoples to make decisions about their own communities and futures.
self-determination
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established in this year.
1972
The 1988 protests challenged the dominant Bicentennial narrative by presenting 1788 from this perspective.
Invasion/colonisation from a First Nations perspective.