Topics: Events: North West

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1924 - view

Aboriginal activism is spearheaded by a Worimi man from Port Stephens

1924 - view

Aborigines voice their disapproval through street rallies, meetings and conferences, the media, letters and petitions to government and the King about injustice and inequality

1924 - view

Maynard’s capacity to inspire an audience alarms the authorities and he is denied the right to speak on Aboriginal reserves. The APB seeks to stop Aboriginal protest by silencing the AAPA

1927 - view

Aboriginal activism for equal rights. Fred Maynard, leader of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association writes a letter of protest to the NSW Premier seeking equal citizen, land and management of the self rights

1927 - view

The request made by this Association for sufficient land for each eligible family is justly based. The Australian people are the original owners of this land and have a prior right over all other people in this respect

1928 - view

“Our own city of Newcastle has set an example to the whole Commonwealth by reason of the constant agitation and maintenance during many years by a local organisation for the betterment of the conditions prevailing amongst the Aboriginal section of the community

1928 - view

Coniston Massacre in the Northern Territory

1929 - view

Compulsory voting is introduced in NSW

1929 - view

Aboriginal resistance in NSW

1930 - view

The onset of the Depression causes many shantytowns to be built in and around Newcastle. Probably for the first time white people hardest hit by the Depression are forced to live alongside Aboriginal people

1930 - view

throwing boomerangs at the old “Koala Park” paddocks

1930 - view

BHP in Newcastle/Hunter Valley attracted “lots of mobs” to the region by making many industrial jobs available and paying equal wages to Aboriginal workers

1930 - view

The number of Aboriginal people living on the government reserve at Purfleet increases dramatically during the 1930s

1934 - view

William Cooper establishes the Australian Aborigines League in Melbourne

1934 - view

Cooper also gathers signatures for a petition to the King to have an Aboriginal representative in the Lower House of Federal Parliament

1935 - view

publishes a hymn book comprising hymns composed by “native workers

1937 - view

Native Welfare Conference heralds the beginning of the absorption policy . This means that all Aborigines of mixed descent are expected eventually to be uplifted into the working classes within a single Australian community. People of full Aboriginal descent are expected to “vanish”. The conference resolves that the “destiny of the Aborignal race”, but not of the “full-blood”, lies in their ultimate absorption by the people of the Commonwealth, and recommends that all efforts be directed to that end

1937 - view

APB seeks to take care of Aboriginal people whether they be “full-blood”, “half-caste”, “octoroon” or “quadroons”

1937 - view

Patten assembles an alliance of activists in the north-east. Both wings of the APA are involved in political organisation, rallies, and protests in Aboriginal communities and reserves and major NSW centres

1937 - view

Aboriginal people and deplorable conditions on Reserves. The APA follows on with a meeting called the Day of Mourning held at Australia Hall in Sydney on Australia Day 1938 to protest against 150 years of European settlement