Topics: Events: North West
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1937 - view
William Cooper forwards his petition for Aboriginal representation in parliament, citizenship and land rights to Prime Minister Lyons for passing to King George V
1937 - view
The government declines to forward it to the King after the 1938 Day of Mourning. (NAA)
1938 - view
“We, representing THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA, assembled in Conference at the Australian Hall, Sydney, on the 26th day of January, 1938, this being the 150th Anniversary of the whitemen’s seizure of our country, HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people by the whitemen during the past 150 years, AND WE APPEAL to the Australian Nation of today to make new laws for the education and care of Aborigines, and we ask for a new policy which will raise our people to FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.”
1938 - view
Aborigines re-enact Governor Phillip’s landing at 150th anniversary celebrations. Aboriginal men are brought in from western NSW to re-enact the Aboriginal response to the landing of the First Fleet. They run up the beach as boats filled with British marines land at Farm Cove. A group of white dignitaries sit in comfortable safety watching the invasion
1938 - view
They take ownership of Christianity, changing it for the benefit of Aboriginal people, rather than for their assimilation into white society
1938 - view
Australian Aborigines Conference (APA), Day of Mourning
1938 - view
26 January, 1938, the 150th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet, a Day of Mourning and Protest
1939 - view
NAIDOC Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 2008
1939 - view
70 of the 350 Aboriginal residents on Cumeroogunga station on the NSW side of the Murray River protest against malnutrition, ill treatment and harsh APB controls. They cross the river and establish a camp on the Victorian bank
1939 - view
charged by NSW police for inducing unrest
1940 - view
American researcher working at the South Australian Museum helps break the academic veto on RH Mathews’ work on Aboriginal language, culture and estates
1940 - view
Many Aboriginal people defer their activism to serve in the Australian army
1940 - view
first Aboriginal officer in the Australian Army
1940 - view
Secretary of the NSW Aborigines Progressive Association. He organises fund raising for returning soldiers
1943 - view
Andy was “in his glory when with children”…he would take them to Maroota to pick waratahs, then give the flowers away on their return home; he spent a great deal of time camped below Ebenezer Church near the river fishing
1944 - view
Blair does work hard. He reportedly goes from singing on canefields and illiteracy at 18 years of age to an outstanding tenor who sings in five languages and performs on the stage around the world
1946 - view
Dave Sands becomes champion boxer
1946 - view
Sackville Reach Aborigines Reserve Nos 23598 and 28546 are revoked
1946 - view
Pilbara campaign. Nearly 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers defy the Aborigines Act 1905 (WA) and walk off in protest over lack of personal freedom, poor pay (often only rations) and sub-standard living conditions
1946 - view
Australia’s longest strike