https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj en-us 2020-07-30 00:32:20 UTC 2025-12-23 07:18:31 UTC hello@padlet.com 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665424319 2020-07-30 00:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665424319 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665424701 British occupation of Australia began]]> 2020-07-30 00:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665424701 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665425230 2020-07-30 00:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665425230 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665425835 2020-07-30 00:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665425835 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665426164 2020-07-30 00:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665426164 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665427681 2020-07-30 00:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665427681 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665428214 As early as 1890 the Aborigines Protection Board is developing a combined policy of 'segregation' and 'assimilation'. In a denial of human rights the Aborigines Protection Board can now forcibly take the children off the reserves and 'resocialise' them 'for their own good'.]]> 2020-07-30 00:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665428214 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665428670 Indigenous Australians are denied the rights of the 1901 Commonwealth Constitution. These rights are not granted until the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) Act [1967 Referendum]. The 1901 Commonwealth Constitution mentions Indigenous people twice: once to exclude Indigenous people from the census, and once to exclude Indigenous people from the lawmaking powers of the Commonwealth parliament.]]> 2020-07-30 00:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665428670 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665429365 The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) grants the Aborigines Protection Board full control and custody of Indigenous children including the power to apprentice Indigenous children aged between 14 and 18 years. [The first 'Aborigines Protective' legislation was in Victoria in 1869, Aborigines Protection Acts (Vic.) (1869, 1886), which became a model for others.]]> 2020-07-30 00:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665429365 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665430509 In 1915 the Aborigines Protection Board is empowered to remove and apprentice Indigenous children without a court hearing. From 1915 to 1939 the NSW Aborigines Protection Board, under the Aborigines Protection Act (1915, 1918, 1936) (NSW) is entitled to forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families without parental or court consent . This 1915 amendment to the Act 'also abolished the minimum age at which Indigenous children could be apprenticed'. Indigenous Australians' movement between reserves is strictly controlled and families are threatened with the removal of their children if they did not comply with the Board's orders.]]> 2020-07-30 00:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665430509 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665430782 Coniston massacre - settlers and police admit to shooting 31 Indigenous Australians after a white dingo trapper is killed.]]> 2020-07-30 00:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665430782 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665432828 The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 (Cwlth) entitles all Indigenous Australians to enrol and vote in Commonwealth elections.]]> 2020-07-30 00:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665432828 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665434600 The Racial Discrimination Act (Cwlth) which incorporates the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination into Australian domestic law is passed . The Act states that: 'it is unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in their political, economic, social or cultural or any other field of public life'.]]> 2020-07-30 00:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665434600 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665436008 The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1984 (Cwlth) gives full entitlement to all Indigenous Australians to vote in all state and territory elections.]]> 2020-07-30 00:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665436008 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665436303 Anti-Discrimination (Racial vilification) Amendment Act (NSW) is passed.]]> 2020-07-30 00:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665436303 0347984 https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665436630 The High Court of Australia rules in the Mabo case that native title exists over particular kinds of land - unalienated Crown land, national parks and reserves - and overturns the doctrine of terra nullius recognising that Indigenous peoples are the original occupants of this land and possessed a complex system of land tenure that has always existed in this country. This case of Mabo and Others v the State of Queensland is not legislation but High Court interpreting what the law is.]]> 2020-07-30 00:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/0347984/3oju0jls7cswjvsj/wish/665436630