1967 Referendum
Holding a referendum is the only way to change this document.
The Constitution
Yirrkala is in this state or territory.
The Northern Territory
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the lawn across from this building.
Old Parliament House
The name of the Gurindji Elder who led the Wave Hill Walk Off.
Vincent Lingiari
The legal idea of 'land belonging to no-one', overturned by the Mabo decision.
The percentage of Australians who voted YES in the 1967 referendum.
90.7%
The place where the bark petitions were sent.
Federal Parliament
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on this date.
26th January 1972.
The name of the song written by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody about the Wave Hill Walk Off.
From Little Things, Big Things Grow
Eddie Mabo is from this island.
Mer Island
Section 127 of the Constitution excluded Indigenous peoples from being counted in this.
The census
The Yolgnu people from Yirrkala sent the bark petitions to Parliament in this year.
1963
William McMahon
The number of Aboriginal stockmen and their families who participated in the walk off in 1966.
200
The Prime Minister that passed the Native Title Act in 1993.
Paul Keating
Section 51 of the Constitution had this impact on the federal Government.
The federal Government had no power to make laws specifically applied to Aboriginal People.
The year that the Yirrkala legal challenge was unsuccessful in the Northern Territory Supreme Court.
1971
An aim of the tent embassy, defined as 'the freedom for a people to determine their own course of action'.
Self-determination
The name of the land rights legislation passed the year after the Wave Hill Walk Off.
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.
The name of the legal decision that took place in 1996 which found that native title could coexist with pastoral leases (but if First Nations rights conflicted with pastoralists' activities, pastoralists' rights would prevail).
The Wik decision
The slogan on the well-known poster produced by the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) campaigning for the 1967 referendum.
Right Wrongs, Write Yes
The Yolgnu people sent a bark petition to federal Parliament to oppose a mining company which intended to mine what resource.
Bauxite (aluminium ore).
The amount of money in compensation for lands not returnable to Indigenous peoples that the Tent Embassy listed as a demand to the Australian Government.
$6 billion (plus an annual percentage of the gross national income).
The amount of land in square kilometres that was handed back to the Gurindji people in 1975.
3300 square kilometres
John Howard