human rights

Question 1

1883

Answer 1

• creation of NSW Aboriginal Protection Board
• wide range of control over lives of Aboriginal people
• had power to remove children from families, freedom of movement, and personal finances

Question 2

1938

Answer 2

day of mourning organised by Jack Patten and the ABA

Question 3

1939

Answer 3

• Cummeragunja mission walk-off
• following arrest of Jack Patten, 200+ residents of the Cummeragunja mission objected to conditions of mission and crossed the murray river leaving NSW
• this was in contravention of rules set by NSW Aboriginal Protection Board

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

government policy from 1937, to absorb Aboriginal culture to create a single unified, white Australian culture

Question 5

social darwinism

Answer 5

idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest” race

Question 6

1915

Answer 6

Aboriginal Protection Amending Act (NSW) gives power to APB to separate Indigenous children from their families without
having to establish in court that they were neglected

Question 7

1937

Answer 7

policy of assimilation adopted by the Aboriginal Protection Boards

Question 8

1969

Answer 8

NSW Aboriginal Protection Board is abolished

Question 9

1981

Answer 9

Peter Read releases pamphlet, The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal children in NSW
coins the term ‘stolen generations’ and argument that it was a form of genocide

Question 10

1997

Answer 10

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released the Bringing Them Home report

Question 11

2008

Answer 11

Kevin Rudd apologises

Question 12

charles perkins

Answer 12

• first known Indigenous man to graduate from a tertiary education
• well known Aboriginal leader

Question 13

Neville Bonner AO

Answer 13

first Indigenous Australian to be appointed to Federal Parliament