Rights and Freedoms
What are common methods used by civil rights activists to achieve change?
Protests, marches, legal challenges, and advocacy.
What is the name for the group of Indigenous children taken away from their families in Australia in the 1900s.
The Stolen Generation
Define the term - Migrant
a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions.
Which Australian city was bombed 52 times during WW2?
Darwin
What does “www” stand for in a website browser?
World Wide Web
What does UDHR stand for?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What year did Kevin Rudd give his "Sorry" speech?
2008
From which country did Australia see mass migration from during the 1970s and 1980s?
Vietnam
What's the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
What is the national animal of Scotland?
Unicorn
Name the American activist who played a pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
The Mabo decision recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have rights to the land. In what year did this take place? A) 1970, B) 1999, C) 2015 D) 1992
D) 1992
What is the 'White Australia Policy'?
A legislation specifically designed to limit all non-European immigration into Australia.
During which war was a Christmas Truce called?
World War I
How many languages are written from right to left?
12
Charles Perkins
What were two effects of the assimilation policy on Aboriginal peoples?
Loss of culture and identity, and displacement from traditional lands.
What is the current population of Australia?
- to the closest million
26 million
What is considered the largest empire in history?
The Mongol Empire
What is the world's most expensive spice by weight?
Saffron
Fill in both BLANKs: The landmark event at which BLANK delivered his “BLANK Speech” was officially titled “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”
The landmark event at which Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” was officially titled “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”
What right did Aboriginal Australians gain in 1962?
The right to vote federally.
Other than migrants/convicts from the United Kingdom which national background was one of the first to migrate to Australia?
Chinese - during the gold rush from the 1850s
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)? What category did she win?
Marie Curie, Physics
(she won two nobel prizes - one in physics and one in chemistry and was first person to win in two different categories)
How often does the International Space Station orbit the Earth every day?
Its less than 20
16 times a day