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The White Australia policy was a set of racial policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origins – especially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islanders – from immigrating to Australia in order to create a "white/British" ideal focused on but not exclusively Anglo-Celtic peoples.
They illustrate a broad range of attitudes to indigenous people held by white Australians, including fear, racism, anthropological interest, paternalism and guilt. Aborigines in White Australia was published by Heinemann Educational Australia in Melbourne and London. It was assigned ISBN 0-85859-072-7 (in Australia) and ISBN 0-435-32830-1 (in ...
In 1965, Queensland became the last state to confer state voting rights on Aboriginal people, whereas in South Australia Aboriginal men had had the vote since the 1850s and Aboriginal women since the 1890s. A number of South Australian Aboriginal women took part in the vote selecting candidates for the constitutional conventions of the 1890s.
A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
The Australian Aboriginal flag was designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas, an Aboriginal artist who is descended from the Luritja people of Central Australia. In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the steps of Old Parliament House in Canberra, the Australian capital, to demand sovereignty for the Aboriginal Australian peoples. [240]
Momentum grew within the Aboriginal rights movement, building on the legacy of earlier generations of activism, and the historical White Australia Policy fell out of public favour. With uneven voting rights for Aboriginals based on states laws, the newly elected Menzies Government legislated in 1949 to ensure that all Indigenous Australians who ...
Aileen's doctoral thesis was titled Talkin' up to the white woman : Indigenous women and feminism in Australia. [1] Her thesis was subsequently published as a book in 1999 [2] which was short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the Stanner Award for Indigenous writing. [3]
For love or money: a pictorial history of women and work in Australia (Penguin Books, 1983) Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. Talkin'up to the white woman: Aboriginal women and feminism (Univ. of Queensland Press, 2000) Ryan, Edna and Anne Conlon. Gentle Invaders: Australian Women at Work (Melbourne: Penguin, 1975).