Topics: Government policy

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West - view

many Aboriginal families were shipped around Sydney

Central - view

Native Title claim for Gadigal land

South Coastal - view

voting for the first time after the 1967 referendum

South Coastal - view

The Homes Trust, where materials and land were allocated in The Valley but people were left to put the houses together themselves

South West - view

changes in the Land Rights Act and the land councils and the effect it has had

West - view

Native Title Act

Central - view

NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act

South Coastal - view

assimilation policy

West - view

Julie Janson reads the letter from The Office of Environment and Heritage permitting damage to the Colebee site

West - view

map of the Darug Native Title claim area and the area covered by the Indigenous land use agreement

Central - view

many children were being taken away

South Coastal - view

dodging the welfare officer, who was determined to take them away

West - view

hearing for the Native Title Claim over Portland Head and how the Land Commissioner, despite the many sites shown to him, decided that the Darug people could not establish ongoing connection to country

West - view

Margaret Reed was taken from her family at the age of 7 and put in the Native Institu te where she was trained to be a servant.

Central - view

Aboriginal Welfare Board Act

South Coastal - view

National Parks and Wildlife

West - view

precedents had been set which would lead to the rejection of the Darug Land Claim, giving the land councils full power,

Central - view

you had to prove citizenship with “dog tags”

South Coastal - view

blanket land claim

West - view

Uncle Neil Sainsbury recalls that his paternal grandparents were also removed from the slums of Redfern to Wentworthville