Exemplar Student Timeline by Mitch Fa'oa https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3 IMAGE CREDIT: Roslyn Brown | Parlini Jilamara – Old Design en-us 2019-04-23 00:16:39 UTC 2024-12-06 00:02:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f4a1.png 1924 Founding of The Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) mitchiefao https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353598519 Fred Maynard founded the AAPA in 1924 in New South Wales, inspired by Marcus Garvey, the first president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the USA. 

The AAPA organized:
  • street rallies
  •  well-publicized regional and metropolitan meeting
  • newspaper coverage
  •  letter-writing campaigns and,
  • petitions

One of the key elements that the AAPA inaugurated in order to make a change was self-determination. 

Unfortunately due to frequent harassment and difficulties the AAPA dissolved in 1927.
]]> 2019-04-24 02:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353598519 1901. Australian Constitution mitchiefao https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353600529 The Commonwealth of Australia is formed. However, Aboriginal people are excluded from the census and the lawmaking powers of the Commonwealth Parliament. Aboriginal people are subject to 'special laws' that are enforced by different states with the intent of providing 'welfare' for Aboriginal people. 

Each state enforces its own 'Aborigine Protection Act':
  • Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 (Vic)
  • Aborigines Protection Act 1886 (WA)
  • Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Qld) 
  • Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW)
  • Aborigines Aboriginals Ordinance 1911 (NT)
  • Aborigines (Training of Children) Act 1923 (SA)

Each Act provided the government with the capacity to remove Aboriginal children from their families. 
]]> 2019-04-24 02:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353600529 1934 Will Cooper & The Australian Aborigines League (AAL) mitchiefao https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353603425 Will Cooper was a highly regarded Cummeragunga man from Victoria. He and others set up the Australian Aborigines League (AAL) in 1934. Some other members of the AAL were:
  • Margaret Tucker
  • Caleb Morgan
  • Anna Morgan 
  • Shadrach James.

an early initiative of the AAL was to petition King George V for representation in Parliament for Aboriginal Australians.
]]> 2019-04-24 03:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353603425 1938. mitchiefao https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353604816 In 1938 the AAL joined forces with restored AAPA to stage a Day of Mourning on Australia Day, 26 January. 
It is the first major protest by Aboriginal people. The manifesto “Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights” and the newspaper “Abo Call” are published. ]]> 2019-04-24 03:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mitchiefao/6f1742fgucm3/wish/353604816