For many First Nations people, this process beginning in 1788 brought dispossession, violence and loss of control over Country.
What is British colonisation?
100
Held on 26 January 1938, this protest demanded full citizen status and equality.
What was the Day of Mourning?
100
This 1902 federal law excluded many Indigenous people from enrolling unless they already had voting rights under state law.
What was the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902?
100
In this year, all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults gained the right to enrol and vote in federal elections.
What is 1962?
200
These discriminatory government systems controlled where many Aboriginal people could live, work and travel.
What were protection laws and policies?
200
This Yorta Yorta leader founded the Australian Aborigines' League and helped organise the Day of Mourning.
Who was William Cooper?
200
From 1949, Indigenous Australians could vote federally if they had state voting rights or had done this.
What is served in the defence forces?
200
The 1962 reform applied to elections at this level of government.
What is the federal or Commonwealth level?
300
This policy aimed to absorb Aboriginal people into white society by erasing their cultures and identities.
What was assimilation?
300
Jack Patten and William Ferguson founded this New South Wales organisation in 1937.
What was the Aborigines Progressive Association?
300
This 1962 law removed the federal voting exclusion affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults.
What was the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962?
300
Under the 1962 changes, doing this remained optional for Indigenous Australians.
What is enrolling to vote?
400
This term describes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed from their families under government laws and policies.
Who are the Stolen Generations?
400
Lobbying by this national council helped win federal voting rights in 1962.
What was the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement?
400
This state was the last to grant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people voting rights, in 1965.
What is Queensland?
400
After an Indigenous person voluntarily completed this step, voting became compulsory for them.
What is enrolling to vote?
500
Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, this statement strengthened claims that equal political participation is a human right.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
500
First published by Jack Patten in 1938, this newspaper was written and published by Aboriginal people.
What was The Abo Call?
500
In this year, federal enrolment and voting became compulsory for Indigenous Australians on the same basis as other citizens.
What is 1984?
500
This later event did not create the federal right to vote; it changed the Constitution so the Commonwealth could make laws for First Nations people and include them in population counts.