Thinking about the impending Voice referendum, I wrote a timeline for #Australia government and the #indigineous #Aboriginies
1788 Colonisation begins
1825 Mounted Police/Native Police Forces
1837 Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes (British settlements)
1844 Aboriginal Orphans Act
1869 Aboriginies Protection Act
1883 NSW Aboriginal Protection Board founded.
1901 Federation & White Australia Policy (aboriginies excluded)
1905 Royal Commission on the condition of the naitives.
1911 Aboriginies Act
1917 Aboriginies allowed to join the armed forces.
1924 Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association
1928 Coniston Massacre involving Police, Church & Uni of Melb.
1934 Aboriginies Act
1962 Aboriginies Affairs Act (Aboriginies get the vote)
1967 Referendum,
1968 Minister for Indigenous Affairs created
1969 David Kennedy(lab) first genetically aboriginal elected
1971 Neville Bonner(lib) first identifying Aboriginal elected
1972 Tent Embassy
1975 Racial Discrimination Act
1976 Aboriginal Land Rights Act
1985 Ayers Rock/Uluru handed back
1991 Council for Aboriginal reconciliation
1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in custody
1992 Mabo Land rights,
1997 Bringing them home report
1998 National Sorry Day
2004 Redfern & Palm Island riots.
2008 National Apology & Closing the gap
2013 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Act
2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart(The Voice v.1 is rejected by Turnbull govt.).
2020 Black Lives Matter marches