Rights & Freedoms - General
Rights and Freedoms - Australia
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Rights and Freedoms - USA
Black Lives Matter
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This event led many world leaders to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Holocaust
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Aboriginal people experienced discrimination in the past. True/false?
True.
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What concept does this image show?
Segregation.
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*Define 'assimilation'.
A minority group comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviours, and beliefs of another group.
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What triggered the recent movement in 2020?
George Floyd's death
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List 2 examples of human rights
The right to life, the right to shelter, the right to liberty and freedom, the right to make decisions about your own body, etc.
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Australia is part of the UN. True or False?
True.
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What does TCUP stand for?
Title, content, usefulness, perspective
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Define 'segregation'.
The separation of people in daily life.
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How many women founded the BLM movement?
Three - Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.
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Who wrote the International Declaration of Human Rights?
The United Nations
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What is a referendum?
A single vote on a political decision by the citizen.
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This map shows the route of something. What does it show?
Australian Freedom Rides in NSW.
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Where did the US Freedom Riders go to protest?
Deep south states; Texas, Alabama, etc.
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What is a Royal Commission?
A Royal Commission is an investigation into a particular matter that is ordered by Federal Parliament but conducted independently.
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*What does the UDHR stand for?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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The 1967 Referendum did what for Aboriginal people?
- Allowed Aboriginal people to be counted in the Census.
- Allowed laws to be made for Aboriginal people.
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What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source? Example?
Primary source - Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
Secondary - One step removed from primary sources, though they often quote or otherwise use primary sources.
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Describe the purpose Freedom Rides in the USA.
Black and white people rode interstate buses together in 1961 to challenge segregation.
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When was the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody tabled to Federal Parliament?
1991
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*When was the UDHR adopted by the United Nations?
1948
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Describe the events of the Freedom Rides in Australia.
In February, 1965, a group of University of Sydney students organised a bus tour of western and coastal New South Wales towns.
They wanted to show to the rest of Australia the treatment that Aboriginal people experienced despite laws existing that prevent discrimination.
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What is the motive of this cartoon?
To show the public what the expectations were for the Aboriginal people using the Moree pools.
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Describe the differences between the Freedom Rides in Australia and those in the USA.
- USA came first; inspired Australia
- Interstate in the US, only around rural NSW.
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What is the main purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement?
To advocate non-violent civil disobedience in protesting the issue of police brutality against African-American people and also the deaths of these people in custody.