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1. The government pays more than $20m to obtain the copyright to the Aboriginal flag and terminate commercial licenses owned by companies which had limited the reproduction of the symbol. Now all Australians can freely display and use the flag.

The agreement also includes a payment to the designer of the flag, Harold Thomas, to secure the copyright, the establishment of an annual scholarship in Thomas's name for First Nations students, and the commonwealth donating royalties from sales of the Aboriginal flag to the NAIDOC Committee.

2. Tennis champion Ash Barty wins the Australian Open. It is her third grand slam title (she won the French Open in 2019 and Wimbledon in 2021) and her first home grand slam. Ash is the first Australian to win the Australian Open women's singles title in 44 years (last won by Chris O'Neil in 1978). Her Wimbledon victory was the first by an Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley won in 1980, while her 2019 French Open win was the first since Margaret Court's win in 1973.

3. Australia Post's issue of Australian Legends of Filmmaking includes one stamp featuring Kaytetye man Warwick Thornton from Alice Springs. His many films include shorts, documentaries and features and highlight First Nations topics, perspectives and experiences. Thornton is best known for feature films Samson & Delilah (2009) and Sweet Country (2017).

4. Ash Barty announces her immediate retirement from tennis at the age of 25 as the reigning Wimbledon champion and two months after winning her third major grand slam at the Australian Open.

I'm so grateful to everything that tennis has given me. It's given me all of my dreams possible, but I know that the time is right now for me to step away and chase other dreams.
- Ash Barty, explaining her retirement from tennis

5. Swans forward Lance "Buddy" Franklin scores the 1,000th goal of his career at the Sydney Cricket Ground, becoming the sixth player in VFL/AFL history to achieve that many goals, and the first since Gary Ablett in 1996.

6. Australia Post joins the celebration of Lance Franklin's 1,000 goals with a special stamp.

7. The Yoorrook Justice Commission officially launches its truth-telling process in Victoria with commissioners scheduled to travel the state to hear the concerns of First Nations Elders, with the broader Victorian community invited in the second half of 2022.

8. A First Nations-led ad campaign seeks to elevate the Voice to Parliament (a demand of the Uluru Statement From the Heart) as a key issue for the May 21 federal election. It calls for a referendum, arguing that support of the Australian public would be more powerful than legislation. It it believed this is the first time the First Nations community has taken matters into their own hands in such a way during an election campaign.

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"There comes a time for everything and everyone. For our constitution and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, that time is now.

"Only 55 years after they were first counted in the census, but tens of thousands of years since they first worked on this land. The time has come for the Australian people to decide if we do or do not wish to formally recognise Indigenous Australians as Australia's first people. And acknowledge that any recognition is only made meaningful with a voice.

"We could ask the government to legislate it, but we would rather the Australian people vote for it. Just think how much more powerful it would be if the recognition hoped for by Indigenous Australians was achieved with the support of all Australians.

"The time for a referendum has come."

9. In its Aboriginal Fibre Art issue, Australia Post features contemporary fibre art by Yolŋu women of the small inland community of Gapuwiyak (Lake Evella) in north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Made from plant fibres such as pandanus and coloured with natural bush dyes, these objects also have profound cultural, ceremonial and symbolic significance. The stamps show a coiled basket (Lucy Malirrimurruwuy Wanapuyngu, b. 1955), a twined conical container (Mary Djupuduwuy Guyula, 1945-2005) and a coiled, flat-bottomed basket (Nancy Walinyinawuy Guyula, 1940-2017).

10. At the 2022 Australian Performing Rights Association awards, 18-year-old Charlton Howard ( The Kid Laroi) becomes the youngest ever winner of APRA's Song of the Year award with his hit Stay. He also won Songwriter of the Year and Most-performed Hip Hop/Rap Work for Without You.

11. After the federal election, Anthony Albanese (Labor Party) becomes Australia's 31st prime minister. He nominates Linda Burney as Indigenous affairs minister, the first Aboriginal woman to hold this position. More than 40 First Nations candidates stood for election (at least 25 House of Representatives, 16 Senate). The Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia received 0.83% of all votes.

There are now 10 First Nations members of Parliament: Linda Burney (Indigenous Australians Minister), Marion Scrymgour (Labor Member for Lingiari), Gordon Reid (Labor Member for Robertson), Lidia Thorpe (Greens Senator for Victoria and spokeswoman for Indigenous Affairs), Dorinda Cox (Greens Senator for Western Australia), Malarndirri McArthy (Labor Senator for Northern Territory), Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (Country Liberal Senator for Northern Territory), Jana Stewart (Labor Senator for Victoria), Pat Dodson (Labor Senator for Western Australia), Jacqui Lambie (Jacqui Lambie Network Senator for Tasmania).

On behalf of the Australian Labor Party, I commit to the Uluru Statement.
- Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese

12. A set of three stamps highlights First Nations peoples' Bush Seasonings. Plants made up about half of a traditional diet, and many native species also played an important roles as medicines, fibre and construction materials, and in ceremonies. The stamps feature Mountain Pepper ( Tasmannia lanceolata), River Mint ( Mentha australis) and Lemon Myrtle ( Backhousia citriodora).

13. The Victorian government passes the Treaty Authority and Other Treaty Elements Bill 2022 to establish an independent body responsible for overseeing a treaty or treaties between the government and Victoria's First Peoples. The bill gives the treaty authority the legal powers necessary to facilitate negotiations and resolve any disputes between the government and First Nations peoples. The treaty authority will be led by First Nations peoples, independent from government, and grounded in traditional culture, lore, and law.

14. Australia Post honours Yorta Yorta man Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls' 50th anniversary of becoming the first First Nations Australian to be knighted (in 1972). Doug was a footballer, pastor, Aboriginal rights campaigner, community leader and state governor. Skilled in advocacy and negotiation, Doug was committed to addressing issues of social justice for
Aboriginal people for which he received an MBE (1957) and OBE (1968).

15. The NSW government decides to permanently replace the NSW flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Aboriginal flag, abandoning a plan to install a third flag pole at a cost of $25m. The change is effective immediately.

16. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese uses a Garma festival speech to suggest the question for a referendum on a First Nations voice to parliament:

Proposed question: "Do you support an alteration to the constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?"

Proposed words added to the Constitution:

There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to parliament and the executive government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The parliament shall, subject to this constitution, have power to make laws with respect to the composition, functions, powers and procedures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

17. Australia Post releases two stamps featuring rock art from the north Kimberley's Wanjina Wunggurr community.

18. In a landmark decision, the UN Human Rights Committee finds that the Australian government has violated its human rights obligations to Torres Strait Islander people by not acting on climate change. A group of Islanders first filed the complaint in 2019, the first legal action brought by climate-vulnerable inhabitants of low-lying islands against a nation-state.

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''I've given absolutely everything:' Barty explains her shock retirement from tennis', The Age 23/3/2022
''Time is now': Australia-wide campaign to call for referendum on Indigenous Voice', SMH 2/5/2022
'Who's in, who's out? How Indigenous candidates fared in the Federal election', National Indigenous Times 21/5/2022
'First preferences by candidate', Australian Electoral Commission, 24/5/2022 as of 7:53 pm AEST, available at tallyroom.aec.gov.au/SenateStateFirstPrefs-27966-NSW.htm
'FULL LIST: Record number of Indigenous MPs voted in to serve the Australian people', National Indigenous Times 23/5/2022
''This will change Australia': Linda Burney says Labor committed to Indigenous Voice', SMH 23/5/2022
'Anthony Albanese reveals 'simple and clear' wording of referendum question on Indigenous voice', The Guardian Australia 30/7/2022
'Historic legal win for Torres Strait Islanders over Australia's inaction on climate change', SMH 26/9/2022

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First humans arrived in Australia, who would become Australia's First Nations.

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A Dutch explorer called Willem Janszoon was the first European to land on Australian land

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Cook claims possession of the east coast for the British Crown on Possession Island.

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11 ships carrying roughly 1400 people arrive in nowadays-NSW, establishing a penal colony in Botany Bay as the first permanent European settlement in Australia.

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1896 - First known vote by an Indigenous Australian

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1896 - First known vote by an Indigenous Australian

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The first vote by an Aboriginal Australian is recorded during South Australia's state election. Aboriginal men were technically permitted to vote since 1856 (the original constitution never forbade them) and Aboriginal women from 1894, but most were not informed they could vote or were threatened not to.

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Federal referendum to give Indigenous Australians the right to vote

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Oodgeroo published her first collection, We Are Going was released in 1964 selling over 10,000 copies.

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal at the time Kath Walker was the first published Aboriginal poet

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The 1967 Referendum was a landmark achievement following decades of activism by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people, where more than 90 percent of Australians voted in favour of amending two sections of the Australian Constitution.

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Primarily involved the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as counted within the National Census - giving them the right to be considered part of the population. Also granted the capacity for Parliament to legislate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

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Liberal Prime Minister Harold Holt creates the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, an advisory body, and the Office of Aboriginal Affairs

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NSW was the last state to abolish their Aboriginal Welfare Board (under which the government had near complete control over the lives of Aboriginal Australians), marking the end of the Stolen Generations.

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The Tent Embassy, a permanent protest occupation site, was established on this day. It aims to fight for land rights, self-determination and reassertion of Indigenous sovereignty peacefully

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The council for Aboriginal Affairs was replaced by the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee which was established by 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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The Aboriginal Land Fund Act is passed to help in purchasing land.

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In December 1976 the federal parliament passed the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. It was the first legislation in Australia that enabled First Nations peoples to claim land rights for Country where traditional ownership could be proven.

For almost 200 years First Nations peoples had been losing rights to their lands as white settlers encroached. This Act was the first step to enabling First Nations peoples to regain these rights.

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The Northern Territory passes the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Bill, leading to the permanent establishment of an authority for the protection of sacred sites.

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Charles Perkins is appointed to the highest government position held by an Aboriginal person: Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

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Uluru is handed back to traditional owners and is subsequently leased back to the government as the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

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The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation is established.

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Change of common law from "Terra Nullius" to "Native Title".

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Codification of the recognition that land was stolen from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

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The Australian Government issues a "statement of deep and sincere regret" over the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their communities but does not apologies.

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The Australian Government denies that a 'Stolen Generation' exists.
"The government is concerned that there is no reliable basis for what appears to be a generally accepted conclusion as to the supposed dimensions of the 'stolen generation'. [...] At most, it might be inferred that up to 10% of children were separated for a variety of reasons, both protective and otherwise, some forcibly and some not. This does not constitute a 'generation' of 'stolen' children. The phrase 'stolen generation' is rhetorical."

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The Commonwealth Government establishes a memorial to the Stolen Generations at Reconciliation Place in Canberra.

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First Stolen Generation Compensation Scheme 2006

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First Stolen Generation Compensation Scheme 2006

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Tasmania establishes the first compensation scheme for the Stolen Generations.

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National Close the Gap Day - Introduced in 2007

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National Close the Gap Day - Introduced in 2007

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National Close the Gap Day commemorates the launch of the campaign on 2 April 2007

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former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an official apology. He expressed regret for past government

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Thunder Raining Poison by Ali Cobby Eckerman was released in the journal Poetry.

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26 May 2017 - Uluru Statement from the Heart Released

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26 May 2017 - Uluru Statement from the Heart Released

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The Uluru Climb is officially closed, it is no longer possible for people to walk on Uluru

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Commonwealth Government purchases the rights for the Aboriginal Flag and announces it may be publicly used, with funds going towards Indigenous affairs.

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Referendum will occur to constitutionally enshrine a body for Indigenous self-representation (the Voice to Parliament).

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On 15 September 2000 Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame in the spectacular opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games. Ten days later she won the gold medal in the women's 400 metres race, achieving her greatest goal.