Topics: Government policy
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1962 - North West - view
‘natives’ as ‘wards of the state’
1963 - North West - 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
1964 - South Coastal - view
Randwick Council
1966 - North West - view
Arbitration Commission
1966 - North West - view
Land Rights legislation in the NT
1967 - North West - view
Federal Referendum
1967 - North West - view
Senate Committee on Aboriginal voting rights recommends that all Aborigines should be given the right to vote in federal elections
1967 - North Coastal - view
Referendum for federal co-control of Indigenous affairs for Aboriginal Australians is successful. The Referendum is often seen as the time when Indigenous Australians achieved full citizenship rights.
1968 - North West - view
Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme (secondary school)
1969 - North West - view
Aborigines Act, NSW
1969 - North West - view
Act also vests reserve lands in control of Aboriginal Affairs
1969 - North Coastal - view
The Aborigines Welfare Board is abolished but leaves behind 80 years of Aboriginal family disintegration due to the removal of children and destruction of living areas. “There is not an Aboriginal person in NSW who does not know, or who is not related to, one or two of his or her country men who were institutionalised by the whites”.
1970 - South Coastal - view
Maroubra Department of Social Security
1971 - North West - view
Senate