QUOTES - INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Question 1

what were the legal reforms that this group experienced?

Answer 1

1. Racial Discrimination Act 1975
2. 1976 referendum which removed 2 clauses from the Constitution, SECTION 127 + 51 where the words “other that the Aboriginal race in every state.” was erased
3. the Milirrpum v Nabalco Court case where in April of 1971 Justice Richarch Blackburn disregarded the Yolngu’s claims of land rights
4. Aboriginal Land Right (Northern Territory) Act 1976
5. Indigenous people being exempt from the cattle station industry award in NSW which was implemented in 1951 and Indigenous people only received equal wages in 1968

Question 2

Frank Bongiorno on the limitation of reforms:

Answer 2

changes “were shaped by class, gender and race”

Question 3

historian stuart machinery on Whitlam

Answer 3

he was “the last national leader to follow his convictions regardless of consequences”

Question 4

historian perspective on the Racial Discrimination act 1975?

Answer 4

“over the years, it had proved of great value, symbolically and in real terms”

Question 5

historians perspective on the difficulty of obtaining land rights

Answer 5

Chesterman and Galligan observed that land rights “represent the most fundamental challenge that has ever faced Australia’s legal system”

Question 6

Chesterman on the motives of Indigenous activists:

Answer 6

“forcing a reluctant state into a new relationship with Indigenous people”

Question 7

Vincent Lingiari on indigenous connection to land

Answer 7

“we bin here longa time than them Vestey mob”

Question 8

the demands of the Gurindji petition in 1966:

Answer 8

“we know and love this land of ours”

Question 9

historian Richard Broome on the response to ‘Manslaughter’

Answer 9

“the Warburton film shocked audiences”

Question 10

how many people voted ‘yes’ in the 1967 referendum?

Answer 10

91% of voters

Question 11

Gurindji land rights petition

Answer 11

“the Crown has blatantly taken our land”

Question 12

Historian Stuart Macintyre on the 1972 Tent Embassy:

Answer 12

“the most spectacular display of black power in Australia”

Question 13

STATISTICS on the hand back of NT land to Aboriginal people:

Answer 13

by 1981, a third of the NT had been returned to Indigenous communities

Question 14

OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES ON THE 1967 REFERENDUM

Answer 14

Indigenous activist Faith Bandler claims that the referendum solely eased the “conscience of White Australians”

Question 15

Justice Richard Blackburn in 1971 on the Milirrpum v Nabalco case:

Answer 15

“the relationship between clan and land did not amount to proprietorship as that is understood in our law

Question 16

Australian Donald Horne in 1964 on the treatment of marginalised groups:

Answer 16

Australia is a “lucky country run mainly by second rate people”

Question 17

Historians Mark Peel and Christina Twomey on the transformations for these groups:

Answer 17

“require legislative change for marginalised groups to achieve equality”