Background to Rights Movement and the Stolen Generations
The belief that Australia was unoccupied at the time of colonisation
Terra nullius
What year was the Day of Mourning protest?
1938
The Tent Embassy was set up in response to government comments about this issue.
Land rights
The Australian state where the Freedom Ride took place.
New South Wales
The Pilbara Strike involved Aboriginal workers in this industry
Cattle Stations
Policies aimed making the ‘Aboriginal problem’ gradually disappear so that Aboriginal people would lose their identity in the wider community.
Assimilation
The event that the Day of Mourning was held to protest against.
Australia Day / the 150th anniversary of British settlement
Why was the protest was placed outside Parliament House.
To directly confront the government?
This public facility became a major symbol of discrimination during the Freedom Ride.
Swimming Pools
Why Aboriginal workers decided to strike instead of continuing station work.
Because of unfair wages and exploitation
The name of the final report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families conducted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Bringing them Home
One of the Aboriginal leaders involved in organising the Day of Mourning
William Cooper, Jack Patten or William Ferguson,
One of the four original Aboriginal men who set up the Tent Embassy.
Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Bertie Williams, or Tony Coorey
Why the media was important to the Freedom Ride.
Helped expose racism to the wider public
Before the strike, Aboriginal stockmen were often paid in this instead of wages.
Rations
Who were particularly vulnerable to removal,as it was thought that they could be more easily assimilated into the white community
Half-caste children
A right Aboriginal people did NOT have in many states at the time.
Citizenship or voting rights
One demand made from the Tent Embassy besides land rights.
Compensation, mining rights, or self-determination
The Aboriginal student who led the Freedom Ride.
Charles Perkins
The length of time the Pilbara Strike lasted.
3 Years
One right denied to Aboriginal people at Federation
Denied to vote in federal elections
Didn’t receive the basic wage and not eligible for pensions
Travel restricted
‘Colour bars’ prevented from entering clubs, bars, restaurants, theatres, public transport, etc.
Prohibited from working certain jobs, included the armed forces
Why the Day of Mourning is sometimes viewed as the beginning of the Aboriginal rights movement?
Because it was the first national Aboriginal civil rights protest
Why did police removal of the tents backfired on the government
It increased public sympathy and attention
The long-term political impact of the Freedom Rides.
Increased public support for Aboriginal rights and the 1967 Referendum?
The Aboriginal leader who helped organise the Pilbara Strike.
Dooley Bin Bin