Vocab
UDHR
Protection Policy
1938 Day of Mourning
The Assimilation Policy
100
Protection Policy
Government policy controlling all aspects of Aboriginal peoples' lives
100
How many articles are in the UDHR?
30
100
The Protection Policy was based on which belief about what would happen to the Aboriginal population?
They would all die out.
100
What date was the Day of Mourning?
26th January, 1938
100
What policy did the Assimilation Policy replace?
The Protection Polocy
200
Referendum
A vote to change the constitution
200
What is the UDHR?
A list of articles describing the human rights that everyone in the world is entitled to.
200
What was the name of the Legal Guardian of all Aboriginal people under this policy?
The Protector
200
What was the location of the Day of Mourning (name of building and city required!)
Australian Hall, Sydney
200
What was the whole idea around this policy?
Having Aboriginal people act, think and be more like white people.
300
Segregation
Keeping different races apart
300
Describe one of the articles in the UDHR
Answers will vary
300
Where were Aboriginal people forced to live during the Protection Era?
Missions and Reserves
300
The Day of Mourning took place on the sesquicentenary of what event? And what is a sesquicentenary?
150 years after the British landing.
300
Why didn't this policy work?
It left Aboriginal people feeling not Aboriginal enough to fit into Aboriginal society, and not 'white' enough to fit into white society.
400
A policy of forcing Indigenous people to take on Australian ways and customs
Assimilation Policy
400
How does this article relate to Freedom of Speech? "No state, group or person can use this declaration to deny the rights or freedoms of others"
Your right to freedom of speech only exists if it does not impact the human rights of others in a negative way
400
Identify 3 ways Aboriginal people were discriminated against during this Era?
Forced to live in missions, forced to stop practising their culture, forced into Christianity, wages 1/5 of the white wage rate, rations 75% white rations, right to marry was controlled, children were taken away and forced to work as servants or farm hands.
400
Name 3 of the leaders involved in the Day of Mourning
William Cooper, William Ferguson and Jack Patten.
400
What happened to children removed from their families as part of this policy, and what is that called?
Stolen Generations.
They were sent to homes or fostered or adopted.
500
The organisation created after World War II, to improve global relationships.
United Nations
500
Give one argument FOR the relevance of the UDHR in today's society, and one argument AGAINST.
Answers will vary.
500
Attempt an OPCVL analysis of this photo, taken at a WA mission.
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500
Why was the Day of Mourning significant and what did it eventually lead to?
It was the first organised protest for Aboriginal people across Australia and it led to the development of Naidoc Day and Week.
500
Identify 3 lasting impacts to those impacted by assimilation policies.
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