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A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Act 1989 1989 (No. 149) Yes (as amended) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Act 1964 1964 (No. 56) No Australian Institute of Anatomy Agreement Act 1931 1931 (No. 44) No Australian Institute of Health Act 1987 1987 (No. 41) Yes (as amended)
William Harris (1867–1931) was an early Western Australian activist for Aboriginal civil rights.He has been called "the most significant voice of a generation with the education and social standing to assert their rights as British subjects".
9 May – A general election is held in Tasmania, which implements compulsory voting clauses of the Electoral Act for the first time. The Nationalist Party led by John McPhee defeats the Australian Labor Party, and substantially increasing its majority. 15 August – The two ends of the Sydney Harbour Bridge are joined in the middle.
The Victorian Half-Caste Act 1886 (in full, an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria") was an extension and expansion of the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869, which gave extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal people in the colony of Victoria to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, including regulation ...
The Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 (SA) established the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust (ALT). [14] This was the first major recognition of Aboriginal land rights by any Australian government, [15] and predated the 1967 Referendum. It allowed for parcels of Aboriginal land previously held by the SA Government, to be handed to the ...
The New Deal for Aborigines (or Aboriginal New Deal) was a landmark Australian federal government policy statement on Indigenous Australians.The policy was announced in December 1938 by interior minister John McEwen and detailed in a white paper released in February 1939.
It was introduced in New South Wales in 1983 and repealed the Aborigines Act 1969. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 introduced land rights for Aboriginal people in New South Wales, [10] allowing the Aboriginal Land Councils constituted under the Act to claim land as compensation for historic dispossession of land and to support the social ...