Dates
When was the 67 referendum?
1967
Who led the 1965 Freedom Ride and became the first Aboriginal person to graduate from an Australian university?
Charles Perkins
What was the Child Welfare Act 1939 about?
The Child Welfare Act 1939 provided parents with the right to contest the removal of their children.
What was the Freedom Ride in Australia during the 1960s?
The Freedom Ride was a trip by students who wanted to show that Aboriginal people were being treated unfairly and to help change their rights.
True or False: The High Court of Australia has found an implied right to vote in the Constitution.
True
What year did the Indigenous Australians begin to stand up against unfair working conditions?
1965
Who convinced Australians to vote yes in the 1976 referendum?
Faith Bandler or Chicka Dixon
What was the main goal of the policies that led to the Stolen Generations?
Assimilate Indigenous children into white society by removing them from their families and erasing their culture
Approximately how many australians voted ‘ Yes ‘ To the 1967 referendum
90.77%
Under Section 80 of the Constitution, the right to trial by jury applies only to which type of offences?
Indictable offences against Commonwealth law
What year did the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people gain the right to vote federally?
1962
Who helped lead the 1938 Day of Mourning protest?
Jack Patten or William Ferguson
What was stated in section 127 of the first version of the Constitution?
"In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted"
Indigenous Australians were excluded from the population counts used to determine representation in Parliament.
What was the purpose of the 1967 referendum regarding Indigenous Australians?
To include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the federal government to make laws for them
Which section of the Australian Constitution provides the right to "just terms" compensation when the Commonwealth compulsorily acquired property?
Section 51(xxxi)
In what year did the Aboriginal Tent Embassy get established on the lawn of Parliament House?
1972
Which Aboriginal union activist said that the Constitution made him feel like Aboriginal people “didn’t exist” before the 1967 referendum?
Chicka Dixon
What did the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1939 recognise the Torres Strait Islanders as?
Separate people after a maritime strike that protested for Islanders’ rights to control wages and their own affairs under the Protection Acts
Under which Australian government was the Racial Discrimination Act passed?
The Whitlam Government
Which High Court case upheld Tasmania's protest laws as invalid for breaching the implied freedom of political communication?
Brown v Tasmania (2017)
What was the exact day, month and year did Rosa parks refuse to give up her seat?
Thursday, December 1, 1955
Where and Who founded the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association in 1924?
Sydney, Fred Maynard
What did Section 10 of the Montgomery City Code require employees to do?
Requiring the employees responsible to assign seats to passengers in a way that separates white people from Black people
Which government minister played a key role in dismantling the White Australia Policy?
Immigration Minister Al Grassby
In Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997), the High Court clarified the scope of the implied freedom of political communication. What legal test did the Court establish in that case to determine whether a law impermissibly burdens this implied freedom?
The High Court in Lange v ABC (1997) established a two-limb test, later refined in McCloy v New South Wales (2015), to determine whether a law impermissibly burdens the implied freedom of political communication.