With reference to ONE specific case, why did frontier violence erupt between European settlers and Australia's indigenous peoples?
The Referendum, 1957-1967 This weblink by the National Museum of Australia, a government agency, provides a comprehensive source of information on the referendum. Follow the links to information on Australia in the 1950s, early petitions, national petition campaign 1962-1963, parliamentary and cabinet debates 1964-1966, cabinet decision 1967, campaigning for a YES vote, victory and the aftermath of the referendum.
Righting Wrongs in the 1967 Referendum This resource by ABC Splash includes video footage and copies of original documents about the significance of the referendum to Indigenous rights in Australia.
Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957-1973 This weblink by the National Museum of Australia, a government agency, provides links to the fights for civil rights and the struggle for land rights.
Aboriginal Embassy, 1972 This weblink by The National Museum of Australia details the erection of an Aboriginal Embassy on the grounds of Parliament House, Canberra in 1972. Follow the links to further information on supporters of the embassy and the Government's response.
Mabo Case This weblink by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies provides a clear account of the Mabo case. Follow the links at the bottom for further information relating to Eddie Mabo, land rights and Native Title Act.
Mabo Decision This factsheet by Reconciliation Australia provides a brief account of Mabo Decision from 1992, which recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights as the traditional owners of their land.
Calls for Recognition of Indigenous Australians This program by ABC Splash examines the growing call for the Australian constitution to recognise and advance Indigenous people's culture, heritage and language.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health by
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live about 10 years less than non-Indigenous Australians. Since 2006, the closing the gap campaign has been pursued in collaboration between government and health, welfare and rights agencies to try and close the health and life expectancy gap within a generation. The health disadvantages experienced by Indigenous Australians are shaped by history and the broader social and economic conditions in which they live; progress has been slow and mixed. This book evaluates the progress made towards closing the gap. How can Indigenous outcomes be improved across a range of key social and economic determinants of health and wellbeing?
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Contents includes: Health status of indigenous Australians -- Closing the gap in indigenous health.
What do we want by
Heidi Normans insightful book begins in the late 1970s when Aboriginal people, armed with new skills, framed their land rights demands. The 1978 land rights inquiry and the laws that followed brought Aboriginal people - and the state - into new and different relationships of power. These have been the source of on-going contestation ever since. For NSW Aboriginal people, the laws allowed an unparalleled level of involvement in government, and in governing. It opened up a host of possibilities. Thirty years later, with over a billion dollars in land assets, a near billion-dollar investment fund, and with over 115 local Aboriginal land councils, the resultant network of land councils is the largest Aboriginal representative body in the country. This book reveals the challenges of Aboriginal people adjusting to modernity as land councils struggle to fully realise the hopes of their members, many of whom continue to suffer chronic disadvantage.
The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights by
Aboriginal peoples - Civil rights - History
Aboriginal peoples - History - Sources
Aboriginal peoples - Law and legislation
The 1967 Referendum by
Aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal peoples - Civil rights - History
Aboriginal peoples - Law and legislation
Australia - Politics and government - 1965-1975
Civil rights
Referenda
Referendums - History
Voting
Voting - History
Many Voices - Stolen Children by
Aboriginal peoples - Biography
Aboriginal peoples - Civil rights - History
Aboriginal peoples - Law and legislation
Belonging
Children, Aboriginal - Biography
Stolen Generations
Everything You Need to Know about the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians by
This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. It details how our Constitution was drafted, and shows how Aboriginal peoples came to be excluded from the new political settlement. It explains what the 1967 referendum -- in which over 90% of Australians voted to delete discriminatory references to Aboriginal people from the Constitution -- achieved and why discriminatory racial references remain. With clarity and authority the book shows the symbolic and legal power of such a change and how we might get there. Concise and clear, it is written by two of the best-known experts in the country on matters legal, indigenous and constitutional. Recognise is essential reading on what should be a watershed occasion for our nation.
Aboriginal Self-Determination by
Aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal peoples - Civil rights
Aboriginal peoples - Law and legislation
Aboriginal peoples - Policy
Aboriginal peoples - Social conditions
Civil rights
Government policy
Living standards
Indigenous Australians since Federation (provisional Title) by
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation.Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 narrates their recovery - not only in numbers but in cultural confidence and critical self-awareness. Pointing to Indigenous leaders, it also reassesses the contribution of government and mission 'protection' policies and the revised definitions of 'Aboriginal'. Timothy Rowse explains why Australia has conceded a large Indigenous Land and Sea Estate since the 1960s, and argues that the crisis in 'self-determination' since 2000 has been fuelled by Indigenous critique of the selves that they have become.As Indigenous people put themselves at the centre of arguments about their future, this book could not be more timely.
Indigenous Rights by
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