Rights And Freedoms

Question 1

What year did aboriginals get the right to vote?

Answer 1

1962

Question 2

When was the day of mourning? Why is it significant?

Answer 2

26th January 1938

Aboriginal groups used the celebrations to protest against their treatment by the government

Question 3

What is a referendum?

Answer 3

It is a vote specifically to change a constitution

Question 4

What are the types of land owner ship?

Answer 4

Freehold
Leasehold
Crownland

Question 5

What is freehold land?

Answer 5

The owner has the right to control what happens on their property

Question 6

What is leasehold land?

Answer 6

Owned by the government but leased/rented to individuals or companies. Leaseholders have similar rights to freehold owners

Question 7

What is crown land?

Answer 7

All land owned by the government

Question 8

What is another term for empty land?

Answer 8

Terra nullius

Question 9

Who led the freedom rides in australia?

Answer 9

Charles perkins

Question 10

What was the first aboriginal group to gain land rights? When?

Answer 10

The gurindji people in 1974

Question 11

What did the 1967 referendum allow the government to do?

Answer 11

It gave them the power to make laws for aboriginal people.

It counted them in the census and gave them true citizen rights

Question 12

Name the man that launched the court case that overturned “terra nullius”

Answer 12

Edie mabo