Mr Meissner's favourites
Mr Meissner's favourite colour
Green
This action involved students travelling from town to town to highlight examples of segregation and racism in Australian towns.
What is the Freedom Ride?
This vote allowed the Australian government to make laws for Indigenous Australians and included them in the census.
What is the 1967 referendum?
This event led to the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families into institutions where abuse and neglect were common.
Stolen Generation
Flowing north through northeastern Africa, this river is the longest in the world and was the lifeline of ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This percentage of Australians voted in favour of amending the Constitution to include Aboriginal Australians in the 1967 referendum
90.77% (correct if within two percent) - this made it Australia's most successful referendum!
Mr Meissner's home Australian State/Territory
South Australia
Aboriginal Australians began forming these to advocate for rights in the 1920-30s
Associations
The 1992 High Court decision that overturned the Terra Nullius doctrine and recognised Aboriginal land rights.
What is the Mabo Decision?
These states had the least rights for Indigenous Australians in 1962.
What are Queensland and Western Australia?
This group of people, skilled in oceanic navigation, settled the many islands of the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, Samoa, and New Zealand.
Who are the Polynesians?
Prior to the 1967 referendum, Aboriginal Australians were not counted in what?
The Census
Mr Meissner's favourite animal
What is a wombat?
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy received an outpouring of support from the community after violent interactions with this group?
The Police
The Prime Minister who issued an apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008.
Who is Kevin Rudd?
This policy aimed at absorbing 'half-caste' Indigenous children into the white population.
Assimilation
This catastrophic event from 1347 to 1351 killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe.
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
What two specific changes to the Constitution was the referendum proposing?
The 1967 referendum led to changes in the Australian Constitution, enabling the federal government to create laws specifically for Indigenous Australians, which was previously not possible, and also count them in the national census which impacted service delivery.
Mr Meissner's favourite subject in High School
What is Food Tech?
What were two key places in the town of Moree that the Freedom Riders visited to highlight segregation?
The Moree Pools and the RSL
This event in 1938 protested Australia's 150th anniversary of colonisation.
What is the Day of Mourning?
The belief that Indigenous Australians couldn't survive in the modern world.
What is the 'dying race myth'?
This series of treaties and protocols first adopted in 1864 establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war (including governing war crimes).
What is the Geneva Convention?
How did the 1967 referendum influence future Indigenous activism? (long term impact)
It was a legal basis to make further progress including the Land Rights Act, the Mabo Decision, and the Apology to the Stolen Generations.
It gave Aboriginal people hope that attitudes were starting to change and that people would start to support improvements to Aboriginal people's lives.
Mr Meissner's favourite band
Florence & the Machine
List at least four methods or focuses of the Indigenous Rights Movement.
Legal Challenges, Petitions, Protests, Advocacy Organisations, Strikes, Raising Public Awareness, Direct Action - Blockades, Confrontations
Land Rights, Economic, Political, Legal Rights, Cultural Preservation and Revitalisation, Segregation, Educational and Health Inequality
The name of the report that first brought the widespread removal of Indigenous children to public attention in 1997.
The Bringing Them Home Report
Over 110 years, this percentage of the Indigenous population was reduced by this amount.
What is 90%?
This conflict, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, saw the North and South of a country fight against each other with the aim of reunifying the country under a communist government.
What is the Vietnam War?
Prime Minister of Australia during the 1967 referendum
Harold Holt