Topics: Events: North West
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1924 - view
Aboriginal activism. Some AIM recruits use ministry training and church networks to link with others and mobilise to protest social issues
1924 - view
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA) is formed. It hosts its first conference in Sydney during 1925 and attracts widespread media attention and a large crowd
1924 - view
Aboriginal activism is spearheaded by a Worimi man from Port Stephens
1927 - view
Aboriginal activism for equal rights. Fred Maynard, leader of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association writes a letter of protest to the NSW Premier seeking equal citizen, land and management of the self rights
1927 - view
The request made by this Association for sufficient land for each eligible family is justly based. The Australian people are the original owners of this land and have a prior right over all other people in this respect
1928 - view
“Our own city of Newcastle has set an example to the whole Commonwealth by reason of the constant agitation and maintenance during many years by a local organisation for the betterment of the conditions prevailing amongst the Aboriginal section of the community
1928 - view
Coniston Massacre in the Northern Territory
1929 - view
Compulsory voting is introduced in NSW
1929 - view
Aboriginal resistance in NSW
1930 - view
The onset of the Depression causes many shantytowns to be built in and around Newcastle. Probably for the first time white people hardest hit by the Depression are forced to live alongside Aboriginal people
1930 - view
throwing boomerangs at the old “Koala Park” paddocks
1930 - view
BHP in Newcastle/Hunter Valley attracted “lots of mobs” to the region by making many industrial jobs available and paying equal wages to Aboriginal workers
1930 - view
The number of Aboriginal people living on the government reserve at Purfleet increases dramatically during the 1930s
1934 - view
William Cooper establishes the Australian Aborigines League in Melbourne
1934 - view
Cooper also gathers signatures for a petition to the King to have an Aboriginal representative in the Lower House of Federal Parliament
1935 - view
publishes a hymn book comprising hymns composed by “native workers
1937 - view
APB seeks to take care of Aboriginal people whether they be “full-blood”, “half-caste”, “octoroon” or “quadroons”
1937 - view
Patten assembles an alliance of activists in the north-east. Both wings of the APA are involved in political organisation, rallies, and protests in Aboriginal communities and reserves and major NSW centres
1937 - view
Aboriginal people and deplorable conditions on Reserves. The APA follows on with a meeting called the Day of Mourning held at Australia Hall in Sydney on Australia Day 1938 to protest against 150 years of European settlement
1937 - view
William Cooper forwards his petition for Aboriginal representation in parliament, citizenship and land rights to Prime Minister Lyons for passing to King George V