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An extensive timeline of Aboriginal activity.

EXTRAORDINARY though it seems, it was not until 1967 that Australian Aborigines were recognised as citizens of their own country. Before that they were classified as native wildlife, along with kangaroos and koalas. This weekend Aborigines are converging on Canberra, the national capital, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a referendum that led to the constitution being amended.

Explains activist moements and the change they created

Gives a good background on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra

Gives great information on events of the past century

This page shows many issues of the Koori Mail, an aboriginal news paper.

Gives information on the freedom riders, aboriginal activists.

TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES Gracelyn Smallwood, MSc, Colin White, BA (Hons) "We took the children from their mothers."1 With these words, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, while launching the Year of Indigenous Peoples at Redfern Park in Sydney in December 1992, officially acknowledged that in the process of colonization, white Australia had denied generations of Aboriginal children their most precious and fundamental right-that of a mother's love and family's care.

Trustworthy site about mortality rates in indigenous Australians.