Aboriginies Timeline
TIMELINE OF ABORIGINAL KEYPOINTS DURING THE 1920s- 1950s
1920: Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria is named an Aboriginal reserve. A number of missions have been established there. First aboriginal protest movement was organised in Sydney.
1925: The year Aboriginal population was at its lowest at 60,000-70,000. Became a ‘dying race’ and marked the beginning of heavy racism towards the indigenous.
1926: 11 Aboriginal people are murdered in WA, under Police custody, no prosecutions followed. William Harris, an aboriginal farmer formed a group union for aboriginal rights, which demanded legal equality and the condition that the indigenous are allowed to live their own way of life.
1927: Federal law for family endowment excludes aboriginals and all payments go to the Aborigines Protection Board (APB). They’re denied maternity allowance and old age pension.
1929: QLD Protector of the Indigenous recommends to the federal government that Aboriginals be assimilated, where they will have no further contact with European society. Aboriginal athlete Lynch Cooper is named World Professional Sprint Champion after winning in 1929.
1930’s: Plight of Aboriginal Australians became worse, many lost their family endowment payments, unemployed and refused work, APB forced them back onto reserves which eventually became overcrowded.
1934: Under the Aboriginal Act, Aboriginal people could always apply to a ‘cease to be Aboriginal’, meaning after doing so they would have equivalent rights with whites. Policy of removing children from their families to aid assimilation which was brought about in 1937 became known as “The Stolen Generation”. Aboriginals were forced to give up on their values and cultures.
1938: Aboriginal Progressive Association declares a ‘Day of Mourning’. Aboriginal conference is held in Sydney, first time thousands of Indigenous protested against Inequality, injustice, dispossession of land and protectionist policies.
1939: WWII begins, Although
1920: Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria is named an Aboriginal reserve. A number of missions have been established there. First aboriginal protest movement was organised in Sydney.
1925: The year Aboriginal population was at its lowest at 60,000-70,000. Became a ‘dying race’ and marked the beginning of heavy racism towards the indigenous.
1926: 11 Aboriginal people are murdered in WA, under Police custody, no prosecutions followed. William Harris, an aboriginal farmer formed a group union for aboriginal rights, which demanded legal equality and the condition that the indigenous are allowed to live their own way of life.
1927: Federal law for family endowment excludes aboriginals and all payments go to the Aborigines Protection Board (APB). They’re denied maternity allowance and old age pension.
1929: QLD Protector of the Indigenous recommends to the federal government that Aboriginals be assimilated, where they will have no further contact with European society. Aboriginal athlete Lynch Cooper is named World Professional Sprint Champion after winning in 1929.
1930’s: Plight of Aboriginal Australians became worse, many lost their family endowment payments, unemployed and refused work, APB forced them back onto reserves which eventually became overcrowded.
1934: Under the Aboriginal Act, Aboriginal people could always apply to a ‘cease to be Aboriginal’, meaning after doing so they would have equivalent rights with whites. Policy of removing children from their families to aid assimilation which was brought about in 1937 became known as “The Stolen Generation”. Aboriginals were forced to give up on their values and cultures.
1938: Aboriginal Progressive Association declares a ‘Day of Mourning’. Aboriginal conference is held in Sydney, first time thousands of Indigenous protested against Inequality, injustice, dispossession of land and protectionist policies.
1939: WWII begins, Although