Rights & Freedoms - General
This event led many world leaders to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Holocaust
Aboriginal people experienced discrimination in the past. True/false?
True.
Picture 1 - What concept does this image show?
Segregation.
*Define 'assimilation'.
A minority group comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviours, and beliefs of another group.
List 2 examples of human rights
The right to life, the right to shelter, the right to liberty and freedom, the right to make decisions about your own body, etc.
Australia is part of the UN. True or False?
True.
What did ADAMANT stand for?
Author, Date, Audience, Message, Agenda, Nature, Techniques
Define 'segregation'.
The separation of people in daily life.
Who wrote the International Declaration of Human Rights?
The United Nations
What is a referendum?
A single vote on a political decision by the citizen.
Picture 2 - This map shows the route of something. What does it show?
Australian Freedom Rides in NSW.
Where did the US Freedom Riders go to protest?
*What does the UDHR stand for?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The 1967 Referendum did what for Aboriginal people?
- Allowed Aboriginal people to be counted in the Census.
- Allowed laws to be made for Aboriginal people.
What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source? Example?
Primary source - Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
Secondary - One step removed from primary sources, though they often quote or otherwise use primary sources.
Black and white people rode interstate buses together in 1961 to challenge segregation.
*When was the UDHR adopted by the United Nations?
1948
Describe the events of the Freedom Rides in Australia.
In February, 1965, a group of University of Sydney students organised a bus tour of western and coastal New South Wales towns.
They wanted to show to the rest of Australia the treatment that Aboriginal people experienced despite laws existing that prevent discrimination.
Picture 3 - What is the message of this cartoon?
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Describe the differences between the Freedom Rides in Australia and those in the USA.
- USA came first; inspired Australia
- Interstate in the US, only around rural NSW.