Topics: Events: North West
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1947 - view
Eureka Stockade, is shot on set at Blind Creek, Singleton . Director Harry Watt seeks to employ local workers and cast people in small parts
1948 - view
world boxing title
1948 - view
Sands defeats Robert Villemain in the “fight of the year” and months later is victorious over Dick Turpin in less than 3 minutes for the British Empire middleweight title
1949 - view
Pilbara strikers is rewarded with improvements to pay and conditions for Indigenous people
1949 - view
After his return from the US where he holds a Churchhill scholarship, Brady speaks out on issues of justice
1949 - view
concert tour of five states
1952 - view
Dave Sands, national and Empire middleweight boxing champion and contender for the world title has died at the age of 26
1952 - view
A stone obelisk monument to the “Lost Tribes of the Hawkesbury” is raised at the site of the old Sackville Reserve
1958 - view
Bert Groves, opposes the policy of assimilation, which he likens to extermination
1960 - view
American Black Power Movement
1961 - view
all aborigines and part-aborigines are expected eventually to attain the same manner of living as other Australians and to live as members of a single Australian community enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities, observing the same customs and influenced by the same beliefs, hopes and loyalties as other Australians
1963 - view
the forced removal of Gooris
1964 - view
“Massacre of Aborigines”
1965 - view
Perkins co-organises a “Freedom Ride” with 30 white students. He takes a bus ride into many country towns, including Moree, exposes racism
1966 - view
Gurinji Walkout at Wave Hill Station
1968 - view
The Cherry Pickers
1968 - view
first Aboriginal to win a World Professional Boxing Championship
1970 - view
Wollombi “1970 Bi-Centenary” commemorates Aboriginal history
1970 - view
Pittock amendments to FCAATSI constitution
1971 - view
Evonne Goolagong beats Margaret Court in the first all-Australian final in the 87 year history of Women’s Singles at the Wimbledon Open