In 1963, the Australian Government took 300 square kilometres of land from the Yolngu people in Arnhem Land to mine bauxite. The Yolngu people reacted by writing the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, which called for broad-ranging reform and recognition of Indigenous ownership.
In 1966, 200 Gurindji stockmen, domestic workers and their families, led by Vincent Lingiari, walked off Wave Hill Station, beginning a seven-year strike fighting for equal pay, conditions, and land ownership.In 1967, a referendum was held on whether to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the census and whether Indigenous people would be subject to Commonwealth laws, rather than just state laws.
Once the group had established themselves in Canberra, they found a gap in the law about camping on Crown Land. Federal MP and Wiradjuri woman Linda Burney said protesters needed to have a good, hard look at themselves.
Start with legalising dwarf palm oil tree plantations in remote communities 🌳 🌳 please...
Can I give this a smoking ceremony as well?. Love to, and like the one they gave to the old parliament house a few weeks ago.
CGWJS54139911 Yet still the state is killing aboriginal people in custody to this day and the bridging the gap is massively short of the mark. Also racist still using their small brains to condemn the people they stole the land from.
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Sorry but you are more worried about a day rather than the aboriginal kids that are leading a life of abuse and crime shame on you.
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