Rights and Freedoms

Question 1

Key events/people in American civil rights movement

Answer 1

Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown vs Board of education, freedom rides

Question 2

SAFA

Answer 2

Student Action For Aboriginals

Question 2

Australian freedom rides locations

Answer 2

Walgett, Gulargambone, Kemsey, Browaville and Moree

Question 3

Mabo Decision

Answer 3

Overturned terra nullius and said that Aboriginals still had access to native title land if they could prove they had a connection predating white settlement

Question 4

Native Title

Answer 4

Native Title Act of 1993 provided a legal means and process for Aboriginals to claim native title

Question 5

Wik Decision

Answer 5

Wik Decision that where native title could be proven on leased crown land, the pastoralist of miner to whom it was being leased did not have exclusive rights but they had to allow the first owners access in order to practice traditions, customs and laws