Topics: Events: North West
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1911 - view
Annie and George are painted there by artist Herbert Beecroft
1913 - 1927 - view
Aboriginal people are forcibly removed by police from farms they had successfully settled, cultivated, maintained and independently farmed
1914 - view
500 Aboriginal people enlist in the armed forces
1915 - view
AIM employs Aboriginal assistants to AIM missionaries
1915 - view
Annie Markim (nee Barber) makes a carrying basket from bulrushes found near Sackville Reserve
1915 - view
Ephraim Everingham dies and is buried at the Aboriginal burial ground, Sackville
1918 - view
Aborigines become subject to the absolute control of the manager. A large number are expelled for not adhering to strict regulations
1918 - view
At his time, strict rules were introduced by Manager of the Mission and many people were removed from Mount Olive for not following the strictly imposed rules
1922 - view
J J Maloney pens editorials to mobilise authorities to save Aboriginal people
1922 - view
AIM purchases a motor bike to visit more Aboriginal camps
1923 - view
They look at Gooris as a cheap form of labour
1923 - view
St Clair Mission is closed off to Aboriginal people completely
1923 - view
Others establish a tin shanty town on the Singleton Common (the Redbourneberry Hill camp) until Housing Commission Houses are built many years later
1923 - view
The loss of St Clair and its impact on peoples’ lives becomes one catalyst that helps trigger Aboriginal political mobilisation and revolt during the 1920's
1923 - view
Aboriginal children are taught farm labour and domestic work. Many end up as servants in the houses of wealthy city residents
1923 - view
forced to relocate due to commercial interests in their land, especially the timber industry
1924 - view
Native Ministry . It recruits 12 men and women, old and young, who show aptness for spiritual leadership among their people
1924 - view
AIM classes these “native workers” into four offices: pastors, missionaries, local assistants and deacons and deaconesses
1924 - view
Aboriginal activism. Some AIM recruits use ministry training and church networks to link with others and mobilise to protest social issues
1924 - view
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA) is formed. It hosts its first conference in Sydney during 1925 and attracts widespread media attention and a large crowd