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Indigenous Rights & Freedoms

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  • What is the name applied to Indigenous children who were taken from their families between 1910 and 1970?
    Stolen Generations
  • What state did the Freedom Ride take place in?
    NSW
  • What group of Indigenous people lived in this area?
    Koorie
  • When was the referendum to include Indigenous Australians as citizens on the census?
    1967
  • What is the UDHR?
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • What doctrine allowed Britain to claim Australia as their territory?
    Terra Nullius
  • What percentage voted YES on the 1967 referendum?
    91%
  • Name two forms of protest.
    March, boycott, sit-in, riot, silent protest, vigil, blockade
  • What was the aim of the Freedom Ride?
    To raise awareness about the issues faced by Indigenous Australians
  • Define ‘terra nullius’.
    Legal term meaning that land was land unoccupied or uninhabited.
  • Where was Eddie Mabo from?
    Torres Strait Islands
  • What were the aims of the Tent Embassy?
    Raise awareness about Indigenous land issues
  • When was the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights created?
    1948
  • What government policy has created a legacy of trauma for Australia’s Indigenous Populations?
    The Stolen Generations; The Aboriginal Protection Acts
  • What right did Indigenous Australians gain in 1962?
    The right to vote.
  • What event inspired Australia’s Freedom Ride?
    The Freedom Rides of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • The ‘Bringing Them Home’ Report was an inquiry into what?
    The Stolen Generations
  • When did Eddie Mabo win the court case against the Queensland Government?
    1992
  • What was the Mabo vs. Queensland court case about?
    land rights
  • What embassy was established in Canberra in 1972?
    The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
  • What statement was made by Indigenous leaders in 2017?
    The Uluru Statement from the Heart
  • What is the name of the initiative aimed at reducing the gap between Indigenous & non-Indigenous Australians?
    Closing the Gap
  • Who apologised to the Stolen Generations in 2008.
    Kevin Rudd
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