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SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Aboriginal rights and land

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people campaigned for decades for equal rights and their land. Milestones included the 1967 referendum, the Tent Embassy of 1972 and the Mabo decision of 1992, which overturned the claim that Australia had been “nobody’s land”.

Place
Sydney · Wave Hill · Canberra · Mer (Murray Island)Oceania
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeAustralia claimed as terra nullius, “nobody’s land”.

  1. IThe Day of Mourning, 1938
  2. IIThe Wave Hill walk-off
  3. IIIThe 1967 referendum
  4. IVThe Tent Embassy
  5. VThe Stolen Generations
  6. VIMabo

AfterNative title recognised in law.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • William Cooper
  • Vincent Lingiari
  • Faith Bandler
  • Charles Perkins
  • Eddie Mabo

Objects

  • The Yirrkala bark petitions
  • The Aboriginal flag

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1938 to 1992. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?