Birth/Death Years: 1861-1941

State/s where activism took place: Victoria and New South Wales

Main Achievement/s: 

·      He was a led organiser for the 1938 Day of Mourning

·      He was Secretary of the Australian Aborigines’ League 

·      He organised a petition on Aboriginal Rights to King George VI in 1938 protesting the treatment of Aboriginal Australians

Other Information:

·      He lived most of his life in rural Victoria where he had a family.

·      He was comparatively well educated for an Aboriginal Australian for the time as he attended adult literacy classes.

Relevant URLs to information: 

- https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-william-5773 
- https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/william-cooper-protests 
- https://www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.au/william-cooper

Events, campaigns, and protests involved in: The leader of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland also served on the board as President of the Council for the Rights of Indigenous People.

Other relevant information: It was on 3 June 1992 that the Australian High Court overturned more than 200 years of white domination of land ownership

https://www.evelynscottschool.act.edu.au/our_school/about_dr_evelyn_scott_ao_1935_-_2017 

https://www.rahs.org.au/evelyn-scott-1935-2017/ 

Find a photo of the activist: 

 

vocally protested the injustices of the Aborigines Act (1905), which effectively abolished the prior legal status and citizen rights of all persons of indigenous descent; and he was willing to criticize senior officials who were complacent or uninterested in the mistreatment of Aboriginal people. Although entitled to a personal exemption from the Aborigines Act, he declined this on the grounds that it reinforced the exclusion of others.

 

 https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Torrey-Harris
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harris-william-6582

Birth/Death Years: 1938-1999

State/s where activism took place: 
New South Wales

Lacking support from the NAWU for a general strike, he travelled to Newcastle Waters station in April 1966, where he triggered a wage dispute and local strike.

·  In 1968 he was elected the first Aboriginal executive member of the Darwin branch of the Australian Labor Party. 

. Later that year he travelled to Bulgaria for the ninth World Youth Festival to publicise the struggle of Aboriginal people on an international stage.
  

Relevant URLs to information:

https://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/nubulunadaniels-dexter-30057#:~:text=Lacking%20support%20from%20the%20NAWU,wage%20dispute%20and%20local%20strike.

https://labourhistorycanberra.org/2015/02/2011-asslh-conference-thats-not-right-indigenous-politics-dexter-daniels-and-1968/

https://www.nma.gov.au/explore/features/indigenous-rights/people/dexter-daniels

Events, campaigns, protests involved in: On the 23rd of August in 1966, Vincent Lingiari led 200 First Nations stockmen and their families to walk off Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory protesting against the pay and work conditions. He fought for aboriginal rights as he and other aboriginals were 'treated like dogs'.

Activist’s Name: Charles Frederick (Fred) Maynard

Birth/Death Years: Born 4 July 1879 Hinton, NSW. Died 9 September 1946 Rydalmere, NSW

State/s where activism took place: New South Wales

Events, campaigns, protests involved in: In 1925 Maynard launched the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), which protested against the revoking of Aboriginal farming reserves and the removal of Aboriginal children from their home and using them for menial labour. It also advocated for free public school for Indigenous children, and that any administrative body that affected Aboriginal lives should be controlled by them. They held conferences and protests which gathered hundreds of Aboriginal delegates which formed a strong voice and lasting legacy.

Activist’s Name: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

Birth/Death Years: 1920 - 1993

State/s where activism took place: Brisbane

Events, campaigns, protests involved in: referendum for indigenous rights

Other relevant information: she is an Australian indigenous women who was born in 3 November 1920 and died in 16 September 1993.