People
Who gave the Redfern Speech in 1992, supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights?
Prime Minister Paul Keating
What happened at Botany Bay in 1788?
Arrival of the First Fleet
What was the name of the speech given by Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1992 recognising the poor treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
The Redfern Speech
What is meant by the term ‘second class citizen’?
Someone who is denied equal rights, opportunities and treatment in a society, despite being a legal citizen.
On what date did the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay?
26 January 1788
Who was the Torres Strait Islander activist who challenged terra nullius in the High Court?
Eddie Mabo
In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued an Apology to Indigenous Australians for what?
The Stolen Generations
What was the result of the 1967 Referendum to change the constitution to allow Indigenous Australians to vote?
The result was Yes! 90.77% of Australians voted to give Indigenous Australians the vote.
What does the term ‘the Stolen Generations’ refer to?
The Aboriginal children removed from their families through government policies from the mid-1800s through to the 1970s.
What year was the Apology to the Stolen Generations given?
2008
Vincent Lingiari was an Aboriginal activist known for his role in which protest?
The Wave Hill Walk-Off
What is the name of the High Court decision that recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights?
The Mabo Decision
What is the White Australia Policy of 1901?
Officially known as the Immigration Restriction Act, it was a discriminatory policy which limited the immigration of non-British people to Australia.
What does ‘terra nullius’ mean?
It is a Latin phrase meaning ‘land belonging to no one’
True or false? The removal of Aboriginal children continued until the 1970s.
True
William Cooper was the founder of the Australian __________ League in 1932.
Aborigines
What was the name of the Aboriginal rights protest where activists rode a bus across New South Wales to protest segregation of and discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
The Freedom Rides
True or false? The Victorian colony’s Aboriginal Protection Act (1869) allowed Aboriginal Victorians the freedom to live wherever they wanted.
False – the Aboriginal Protection Act gave the government additional powers to try to compel Aboriginal Victorians to live on reserves.
True or False? Assimilation was a policy where people are expected to give up their own culture and take on the culture of another group.
True
When was the Day of Mourning held?
26 January 1938, 150 years after the arrival of the First Fleet.
The leader of the Freedom Rides was Charles ________.
Perkins
What is the name of the protest for Indigenous land rights that began as a tent under a beach umbrella outside Parliament House in 1972?
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
What was the name of the government act that created Australian citizenship as separate from Britain, but did not include First Nations peoples?
The Citizenship Act (1949)
What does ‘Reconciliation’ mean?
A process of strengthening relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The Freedom Rides began in which year?
1965