Evidence to Use for Extended Response

Question 1

Technology Advancements 1960’s

Answer 1

By 1960, up to 70% of Sydney and Melbourne households had television sets. By the 70’s, this had risen to 90%

Question 2

Social/ political/economic status of Indigenous people in the 1960’s
- EMPLOYMENT

Answer 2

A survey in NSW in the mid-1960s found that 81% of Aboriginal workers were unskilled and that the remainder were semi-skilled except for one per cent who were classified as skilled.

Question 3

Snapshot: Social/ political/economic status of Indigenous people in the 1960’s
- HEALTH

Answer 3

Surveys undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s found that 70% and 50% of NSW Aboriginal children surveyed were anemic, which was 10 and 20 X the levels of anaemia in European children.

Question 4

Reduction in the Aboriginal population quote

Answer 4

“the inferior race is doomed to disappear…” - The Age 1st Jan, 1888

Question 5

Examples of work for full-blooded Aboriginal Treatment

Answer 5

the Cootamundra Girls’ Home in NSW trained girls to become domestic servants.

Question 6

The Bringing them home report extract

Answer 6

“Most of us girls were thinking white in the head but were feeling black inside”

“We were a very lonely, lost, and sad displaced group of people”

“We didn’t know anything about our culture”

Question 7

NSW Freedom Ride - Placards outside Moree town hall and council chambers

Answer 7

“Born together, why not swim together?”