Topics: Government policy: North West

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1943 - view

inspection by health and lands officials

1943 - view

AWB

1946 - view

APB (later Welfare Board)

1948 - view

Aboriginal Welfare Board

1949 - view

government policies

1950 - view

Policies of assimilation and integration

1950 - view

Welfare Board

1950 - view

The assimilation policy

1950 - view

The assimilation policy denies Aboriginal people their basic rights. It stops them from raising their own children , freedom of movement, access to education, award wages, marrying without permission, eating in restaurants, entering a pub, swimming in a public pool or the right to vote

1954 - view

state housing commission

1961 - view

Native Welfare Conference

1961 - view

policy of Assimilation

1961 - view

House of Representatives

1962 - view

Federal government grants Aboriginal people the optional right to vote

1962 - view

‘natives’ as ‘wards of the state’

1963 - view

City Council, the University, the Department of Education, the Crown Solicitor and the Aborigines Welfare Board (they have to provide alternative housing) to reach a solution

1966 - view

Arbitration Commission

1966 - view

Land Rights legislation in the NT

1967 - view

Federal Referendum

1967 - view

Senate Committee on Aboriginal voting rights recommends that all Aborigines should be given the right to vote in federal elections