Rights and Freedoms

Question 1

Aboriginal Protection Act 1869

Answer 1

To give ‘protection’ to Aboriginals by controlling all aspects of their lives.

Question 2

Aborigines Protection Board 1890 (what did they do)

Answer 2

Removed half-caste children from their families and merge them into non-indigenous families.

Question 3

Commonwealth Electoral Act (1962)

Answer 3

Aboriginal people were allowed to vote in federal elections.

Question 4

Assimilation Policy 1962

Answer 4

Removing Aboriginal children from their families and assimilating them with white families.

Question 5

Native Title Act (1993)

Answer 5

Recognition of Native Title and aboriginal people could go through legal process to have it.

Question 6

Freedom Rides (Australian) (when, who, what did they do)

Answer 6

1965

Charlie Perkins ( one of two Aboriginal students studying in the University of Sydney. Founder of SAFA – Student Action For Aborginese)

It showed and spread awareness about how indigenous Australians were treated. Also helped lessen the prejudice against aboriginal people.

Question 7

1967 Australian referendum (what did it help with)

Answer 7

This empowered the national government to make laws in respect of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that could assist in addressing inequalities.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would be counted as part of the population

Question 8

Mabo Decision (when, who, what effect it have)

Answer 8

1992

eddie mabo

This event was significant as it not only impacted their civil rights of aboriginal people of the time being talked about, but also future court cases. The decision led to the passing of the native title act in 1993.

Question 9

Wave hill walk off (when, who, what did they do)

Answer 9

23 August 1966
(7 years)

Vincent Lingiari , Gurindji people

led 200 First Nations stockmen and their families to walk off Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory protesting against the pay and work conditions.

This eventually led to the return of a portion of their homelands to the Gurindji people in 1974, and the passing of the first legislation that allowed for First Nations peoples to claim land title if they could prove a traditional relationship to the country.

Question 10

what is Terra Nullis and what did it lead to

Answer 10

Land belonging to no one.
Led to loss of identity and loss of cultures and practices

Question 11

Colonisation

Answer 11

Establishing control over the indigenous people of an area and setting up your own communities modelled off another nation.

Question 12

Assimilation

Answer 12

When one culture is expected to adopt the ways of the dominant culture.

Question 13

List three indigenous activists

Answer 13

Eddie Mabo (Mabo desicion- court case)
Charles Perkins (freedom rides)
Vincent Lingiari (wave hill walk off)

Question 14

What are three major Protest Strategies

Answer 14

• sit ins
• marches
• boycotts

Question 15

How did US civil rights movement influence Australian Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 15

• same protest strategy (sit ins- Freedoms Rides)
• similar aims and sentiment (Advocate and show the mistreatment)