Convict Australia
An 'ism' that means extending control over foreign lands, usually through the creation of empires.
What is imperialism?
A number of battles and massacres between colonisers and Australian Aboriginals between 1788 and as late as 1934.
What were the Frontier Wars?
The term used to describe the employment, luring and capture of South Sea Islanders during the late 1800s.
What is black-birding?
The collective name given to the thousands of Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families and homelands due to government regulations.
What is the Stolen Generation?
This man is the current prime minister.
Who is Anthony Albanese?
A group of people from Indonesia who traded in trepangs (sea cucumbers) with Indigenous Australians.
Who were the Makasar?
One of the earliest recorded resistance fighters of the Frontier Wars. A Bidgigal man from the Drug nation, he lead up to 100 Indigenous warriors at the Battle of Parramatta.
Who was Pemulwuy?
The site of many anti-Chinese riots over ten months in 1860 - 1861.
What is 'Lambing Flat'?
This man was the 'Protector of Aborigines' for Western Australia in the 1930s.
Who was A.O. Neville?
Australia's first governor.
Who was Sir Arthur Phillip?
This document was used to provide a convict with limited freedoms.
What is a ticket of leave?
A massacre of Indigenous Australians which was unique because it was one of the first and last instances where white instigators of violence were penalised for their crimes.
What was the Myall Creek Massacre?
A statue of this man was covered in red paint because of his role in the black birding industry in Queensland.
Who was Robert Towns?
This event was held on Australia Day in 1938.
What was the National Day of Mourning?
Australia's most famous bushranger, executed in Melbourne in 1880.
Who was Ned Kelly?
A report that was commissioned after an inquiry between 1819-1823 which changed the lives of convicts in Australia.
What was The Biggest Report?
This man was kidnapped by Arthur Phillip and became the first Australian Aboriginal to visit England.
Who was Bennelong?
The province in Southern China where 90% of Chinese miners migrated from.
What is Guangdong province?
A bus ride through Northern NSW in 1964 that aimed to bring attention to the treatment of Indigenous people in Australia.
What were the Freedom Rides?
The first state to introduce female suffrage (female voting) in Australia.
What is South Australia?
The place where female convicts were kept as punishment and also for work.
What was a female factory?
A latin expression meaning 'nobody's land', a doctrine that was used to stake British claims over Australia.
What is 'terra nullius'?
This act in 1861 restricted the immigration of Chinese miners to NSW.
What was the Chinese Immigrants Regulation and Restriction Act?
One of the first Indigenous students at Sydney University, an Aboriginal activist who lead the bus trips through NSW.
Who was Charlie Perkins?
The first Aboriginal member of federal parliament.
Who was Neville Bonner?