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The Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal and Australian national flags. Reconciliation in Australia is a process which officially began in 1991, focused on the improvement of relations between the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia and the rest of the population.
"Background information on racial issues and Aboriginal land rights, 1971-2018 in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia". Dr Bill Day, anthropologist. Korff, Jens (25 July 2020). "Aboriginal timeline: Land & land rights". Creative Spirits. Van Krieken, Robert (1 July 2000).
Demands of the Tent Embassy have included land rights and mineral rights to Aboriginal lands, legal and political control of the Northern Territory, and compensation for land stolen. [ 241 ] The National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC) was the first elected body representing Indigenous Australians on the national level, having been ...
It was a very ambitious project, and Rachel Perkins (creator, director, and producer, and daughter of Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins, [2]) said that it was the most important thing she would ever work on, "because it really was an opportunity to try and tell the Indigenous story in a comprehensive manner from an Indigenous perspective ...
John Thomas Patten (27 March 1905 – 12 October 1957) was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist and journalist. He was a co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association and led some of the first organised Aboriginal protests, including the Day of Mourning in 1938 and the Cummeragunja walk-off of 1939.
Noel Pearson is an Aboriginal lawyer, rights activist and essayist. From the 1950s onwards, Australians began to rethink their attitudes towards racial issues. An Aboriginal rights movement was founded and supported by many liberal white Australians and a campaign against the White Australia policy was also launched.
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), founded in Adelaide, South Australia, as the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) on 16 February 1958, was a civil rights organisation which campaigned for the welfare of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, and the first national body representing Aboriginal interests.
Historians have noted it as the first industrial strike by Aboriginal people since colonisation [1] [6] and the longest industrial strike in Australian history. [1] [2] It is regarded as a landmark historical moment in the history of the human rights, cultural rights, and Native title rights of Indigenous Australians. [5] [2]