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In 1964 students from the University of Sydney formed a group called Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA), led by Charles Perkins, an Arrernte man born in Alice Springs who was the first Indigenous Australian to graduate tertiary education. [1] [2] [3] They were inspired by American Civil Rights Movement [1] and the anti-apartheid movement in ...
The trip was based on the "Freedom Rides" that occurred as part of the civil rights movement in the United States in the early 1960s. The bus travelled to number of towns where racial discrimination had been identified with the aim of highlighting the inequalities and raising the profile of this issue amongst the broader Australian community.
These groups had also sent petitions to the Australian and the British governments, in the early 1930s, for the recognition of Aboriginal civil rights (including Aboriginal representation in the Parliament of Australia), but they had been ignored or dismissed without serious attention, and each had refused to pass the petitions on to King George V.
The Australian Nationalist Movement (ANM), also known as the Australian Nationalist Worker's Union (ANWU), was a Western Australian neo-Nazi, extreme right-wing group founded and led by Peter Joseph "Jack" van Tongeren. In 1987, Van Tongeren distributed 400,000 racist posters around Perth.
Pages in category "Australian indigenous rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 204 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Civil Rights Movement began the day Black people stepped foot on American soil. 9. Marching was an acceptable form of protest. Partly because of how our education system sugarcoats the past ...
8 January – Federal interior minister John McEwen released a white paper detailing the New Deal for Aborigines, a policy by which Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory could receive full civil rights in exchange for cultural assimilation.
A Dictionary of Australian Military History – from Colonial Times to the Gulf War (1992) Hearn, Mark, Harry Knowles, and Ian Cambridge. One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994 (1998) Hutton, Drew, and Libby Connors. History of the Australian Environment Movement (1999) excerpt and text search; Kelly, Paul.