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Colonization begins and Aboriginals become British subjects
without choice.
Aboriginal women and children kidnapped for stock-hands and servants.
A protector of Aboriginals appointed.
Aboriginal Protection Board established - sets up reserves a great distance from towns to reduce contact with white society.
Exclusion & segregation - Department policy gave the right to white parents to decide whether to allow Aboriginal children to attend public schools - most schools choose not to allow them to attend.
Assimilation Policy
Aboriginal Welfare Board replaces Aboriginal Protection Board.
Aboriginal children required a medical certificate to attend school .... Non-Aboriginal children do not.
Integration Policy
Walgett Freedom Ride.
Referendum - Aboriginals become Australian Citizens, and for the first time had the right to vote.
Withdrawal of the section in the teachers handbook - "Principle right to refuse enrolment to the Aboriginal children in school".
Bi-Centennial protest march in Sydney.
Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody completed.
Mabo High Court decision on native title - Australia was never "TERRA NULLIUS".
Federal Government passes the Native Title Act.
International Indigenous people's youth conference held in Darwin, Australia.
2nd International Indigenous people's Education Conference, Wollongong, Australia.
Federal Government established a National Land Fund.
2nd International Healing Our Spirits worldwide conference, Darling Harbour, Australia.
Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Reconciliation begins - thousands participate in bridge marches across Australia to show support.
Aboriginal Reconciliation continues.
Aboriginal people call for Treaty between white and black Australia.
Prime Minister of Australia on behalf of the nation, say's sorry to the Aboriginal People
The Aboriginal population is less than 1% of Australia's total population.
"This Land was Never Given up
It's People were not Conquered
Stands Tall and Proud
Small in Number
The Original Crowd of the Land Downunder"
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