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On the 26 January 1788 a fleet under the commandment of captain Arthur Phillips brought the first European and African settlers to Australia. The whole purpose for the fleet was to find a convict settlement on the east coast of Australia, botany bay.

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First Fleet convicts - Convicts: Bound for Australia - Research Guides at State Library of New South Wales (nsw.gov.au)

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On January 1, 1901, six British colonies - New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania united to make the commonwealth of Australia. this process is known as federation.

For at least 50,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have lived on this land and practiced traditional cultures and languages. From the late 1700s, British colonies were established. By the late 1800s, these colonies had their own parliaments but were still subject to the law-making power of the British parliament.

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The Federation of Australia - Parliamentary Education Office (peo.gov.au)

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Thousands of children were forcibly removed by the governments, churches and welfare bodies to be raised in intuitions and fostered out or adopted by non-Indigenous families, nationally and internationally. They are known as the Stolen Generations.

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The Stolen Generations | AIATSIS

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A poster that is being shown by activists. 

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On the 26 January 1938 the day of Mouring happened which marked the 150 year since the arrival of the first fleet. On the day many Australians celebrated the arrival of the first fleet and colonization of australia. But for many Aboriginal and Torrie strait islanders this was no celebration as it marked the day their land was taken from them by the British.

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1938 Day of Mourning | calendar (humanrights.gov.au)

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In the 1850s under the constitutions of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, Aboriginal men had the same right to vote as other male British subjects aged over 21. However, it wasn’t until 1896 that Tasmania granted Aboriginal men franchise. In 1895 South Australia became the first electorate in the world to give equal political rights to both women and men. Aboriginal women shared these rights.

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Indigenous Australians’ right to vote | National Museum of Australia (nma.gov.au)

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On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to ​Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and assimilation.
The journey to National Apology began with the Bringing Them Home report – the findings of an inquiry instigated by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 1995.

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National Apology | National Museum of Australia (nma.gov.au)