Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms

People

100

What is the name of the African American leader for civil rights and freedoms?

Martin Luther King

200

What is the name of the Australian Prime Minister who delivered the Apology to the Stolen Generations?

Kevin Rudd

300

What is the name of the Indigenous Australian who led the Freedom Rides?

Charles Perkins

400

What is the name of the Indigenous Australian that campaigned for land rights?

Eddie Mabo

500

What is the name of the first Aboriginal member of parliament?

Neville Bonner

Dates

100

What is the year a national referendum was held to get Indigenous Australians included in the census?

1967

200

What is the year that the Australian Freedom Rides took place?

1965

300

What date is the Day of Mourning?

26th January

400

What is the year the Apology was given?

2008

500

What is the year that Indigenous Australians were included on the electoral roll?

1962

Events

100

What is the bus trip around NSW to make people in the country aware of racism?

The Freedom Rides

200

What is the name of the movie about three young Aboriginal girls trying to get home after they were removed from their families?

Rabbit Proof Fence

300

What is the name given to the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families?

The Stolen Generations

400

What is the year Paul Keating delivered the Redfern Speech?

 1992

500

What is the name of the report created about the Stolen Generations?

Bringing Them Home

Places

100

What is the state that the Australian Freedom Rides took place in?

NSW

200

What is the name of the city that the Day of Mourning protests took place in?

Sydney

300

What is the name of the camp made by Aboriginal activists in the grounds of Parliament House in Canberra?

The Tent Embassy

400

What is the name of the Football Oval where Nicky Winmar stood against racial vilification?

 Victoria Park

500

Wiradjuri

What is the name of the Aboriginal nation that covers Wagga Wagga?

Other

100

The Black Panther Party

What is the American political party which advocated for more forceful action on civil rights?

200

What is the town where Freedom Riders broke the segregation of the pool for local Aboriginal children?

Moree

300

What was the name of the leader of the Wave Hill Walk Off, and the Prime Minister who symbolically poured dirt into his hand?

Vince Lingiari and Gough Whitlam

400

Native Title

What is the recognition that Indigenous people have lands rights known as?

500

Segregation

What is the forced separation of different races?