Indigenous Rights
What was Australia declared as in 1788?
Terra Nullius
What is the Stolen Generation?
Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families and communities during the 1900s
Who was the Mabo Decision named after?
Eddie Mabo
True or False - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were not counted as citizens in The Australian Constitution in 1901
True
What was a women's main role in the 1800s and early 1900s?
Name one significant Indigenous Australian who fought for their rights
Eddie Mabo
How many Indigenous children were taken between 1910 and the 1970s? (as a fraction)
1/3
In what year was the legal decision for the Mabo Case made?
1992
What year was the referendum held?
1967
What were some of the rights women had to fight for?
Go to university, equal pay, ability to vote, right to work, minimum wage
Aborigines allowed to leave the reserves had to have a..
A license or dog tag
Where were Indigenous children taken?
They were placed in non-Indigenous homes and dormitories.
The Mabo Decision led to what act being passed in 1993?
Native Title Act
What percentage of voters voted yes in the referendum?
Over 90%
Women who campaigned for the right to vote were known as
What were Aboriginal people paid in rather than money in the 1960s?
Meat & Salt
The removal of Indigenous children was a deliberate effort by the Australian Government as part of which policy?
Assimilation Policy
What concept was the Mabo case challenging at the High Court?
Terra Nullius
What did the referendum do for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples? What was its purpose?
To count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the census and give the Australian Government the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Which was the first state to give women the right to vote?
What was the freedom ride?
In 1965, Charlie Perkins led a bus load university students around NSW confronting locals and demanding an end to discrimination.
What were some of the effects of the Stolen Generation?
Oral language and traditions were lost.
Children experienced neglect, abuse and they were more likely to suffer from depression, mental illness and low self-esteem.
Less likely to have a secondary education and three times more likely to have a police record.
Intergenerational Trauma.
Where did Eddie Mabo grow up?
Mer, also known as Murray Island in the Torres Strait
After the referendum passed one of the government’s first acts under its new power was to establish the Council for...
Aboriginal Affairs
When did the first demands for equal women's rights in Australia start?
1880s