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 * Assimilation:** Trying to make people change their culture and way of life so they will fit in with their society


 * Protectionism:** Policies to manage and protect the Aboriginal people


 * Reconciliation:** To put differences aside and become friends


 * Self Determination:** The right of a group of people what is best for them and to control their own lives


 * Terra Nullius:** A Latin word meaning the land that belongs to no one, Captain Cook then sailed into Botany Bay were the ecosystem was thriving unlike the dutch who landed on the bad side of Australia 'Western Australia"


 * Questions 2-6 page 284

2 - Why did white Australia adopt this policy of protectionism towards Aboriginal Australians?**

The idea that the Aboriginal Australians needed to be separated from the white Australians and that they had to be protected for their own good. At this time there was little knowledge about the Aboriginal Customs and their bond with the land and their spiritual and traditional feelings of the land in which they live in. Many Aboriginals were taken away from their land and put into reservations of missions.


 * 3 - Why were many Aboriginals taken from their families (the Stolen Generations)?

Many of the Aboriginal Australians were taken from their families because the white Australians didn't think that the aboriginal people were doing a good job taking after there kids, and that if they were taken from there families they would be able to become fully European at this time the Australian government thought it was the right thing to do **


 * 4 - What was the policy of Assimilation?**

The policy of assimilation was when people recognised the aboriginal people were not dying out and the number of mixed blood people were increasing. Assimilation was when the Australian government made the Aboriginal children change their way of life and mix in with the white Australian society


 * 5 - What aspects of the policy of assimilation led to it being the new policy of integration?

This was when a change occurred that said that the aboriginal community didn't have to lose all of their cultural ideas beliefs and customs and then another word was used for this policy - integration **


 * 6 - What became the official policy towards Aboriginal Australians from the early 1970's?**

The official policy towards aboriginal Australians from the early 1970s was self determination. This meant that the Aboriginals had full control over everything that had to do with their life


 * Source 6.3 - An Aboriginal Day of Mourning, 1938

1 - Explain the Purpose of the Day of Mourning

The purpose was to have the voice of the Aboriginal people heard in the white society in Australia. This day was also to used to show the frightful conditions that the Aboriginal Australians live in **


 * 2 - List some of the Changes and reforms that the Aboriginals were seeking**

The Aboriginals were seeking things such as, full citizens rights, old age pensions, maternity bonuses, relief work when unemployed and the right to a full eduction for the the Aboriginal children


 * 3 - What Government policy at the time made the Aboriginal people feel as if they were treated as a special class?

The government policy was the "White Australia Policy" **


 * 4 - How were the Majority of Aboriginal people treated in Australia in the period before WW2?**

The Aboriginal people were treated like they weren't even there in Australia they were nothing more than dirt they were no use they just lived in the desert. The Australian Government thought that they were going to die out so they didn't even count them as people. As the source shows they were treated as a special class. The "White Australia policy meant that everyone in Australia with relevance had to be white people couldn't get in unless they passed a specific test citizenship test. Australia was a very racist country before WW2


 * What the Freedom Ride was and why it was important:**

The Freedom ride was lead by mostly white students and in 1965, they travelled through country towns of NSW on a bus to highlight the discrimination that existed in rural Australia. Many country towns believed in keeping the white community separate from the Aboriginal community because they thought that the Aboriginals were unclean. They were separated in the cinemas and they couldn't even swim in the public pools.


 * Significance of the 1967 Referendum:

The 1967 referendum was a great thing that happened to the Aboriginal community, this allowed the Aboriginal people to be counted in the census and be know as a member of the Australian community. This meant that they had the same citizen rights as other Australian people. 90.7% voted yes for the right of aboriginal people to be counted the largest in Australian history. **


 * Create a timeline of the major dates for the struggle for land rights and native title using the information provided on pages 292-300.**


 * 1963:** Yolngu people lose 300 square kilometres of traditional lands
 * 1966:** Another Important protest by the Aboriginal people
 * 1967:** Referendum were Aboriginals had the right to be counted
 * 1972:** Gough Whitlam policy speech
 * 1982:** A group of people from the Mer Islands in Torres Strait lead by Mabo took the case to the Supreme Court of Queensland
 * 1992:** Mabo Decision
 * 1996:** The Wik decision


 * On one paragraph each answer questions 1 and 2 on the Stolen Generations on page 303.

1- It shows us that they really started to believe that they were becoming white and that they didn't have black families and that they never knew were they came from, they didn't know there names they were just called by numbers

2- The reason they took the children was because the Aboriginal race was seen as an embarrassment to White Australia,

1- Explain what is being referred to in the caption.

What is being referred to is that to be able to do even the simple things that all kids get to do you need to be white

2 -** **What is the cartoonist suggesting by having the Aboriginal man painting the children white?

This shows that the Aboriginal man knows that the only way for the children to do things was to be white and if you weren't whit then you had to stay out of most things that kids did

Key Aboriginal Leaders:

Charles Perkins: An Australian activist for the rights of the Aboriginals, in 1965 Charles Perkins lead something called the Freedom Ride which was a bus tour through rural NSW by protesting discrimination against the Aboriginal people. The aim of this was to expose discrepancies in living, education and health conditions among the Aboriginal population

Neville Bonnor: He was an Australian Politician, he was the first Indigenous Australian to be in parliament, he was unique he was an indigenous activist and in parliament even though he got a lot of persecution for being a serious left wing indigenous activist, in 1979 he was jointly named Australian of the Year

Oodgeroo Noonuccal: She was a political activist, a poet, an artist, and an educator, she was a campaigner for Aboriginal rights she was most famous for her poetry, and she was the first indigenous Australian to publish verse. She was involved in many political organisation

Eddie Mabo: (29 June 1936–21 January 1992) He is famous because he fought for Aboriginal land rights and what was rightfully his, in 1992 Mabo received the Human Rights Medal for what he did for the Aboriginal Community

Vincent Lingiari: Was an Aboriginal rights activist who was appointed as a member of the Order of Australia due to his service to the Aboriginal community he was born 1908 to the 21st of January 1988 **

You need to add dates for the definitions so that you are able to use these in an exam or task. Sound effort. 34/40