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1924 - North West - view
AIM classes these “native workers” into four offices: pastors, missionaries, local assistants and deacons and deaconesses
1924 - North West - view
Aboriginal activism. Some AIM recruits use ministry training and church networks to link with others and mobilise to protest social issues
1924 - North West - 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
1925 - South Coastal - view
expelled from reserves
1926 - South Coastal - view
repossessed by the Catholic Church
1926 - South Coastal - view
La Perouse reserve revoked and it's residents moved
1927 - South Coastal - view
joining the Aborigines Progressive Association
1927 - North West - 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 - North West - 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 - South Coastal - view
removed by Welfare
1928 - North West - 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 - North West - view
Coniston Massacre in the Northern Territory
1928 - West - view
Maynard spoke and wrote passionately and insightfully about the injustices and atrocities committed against Aboriginal people
1929 - North West - view
Compulsory voting is introduced in NSW
1929 - North West - view
Aboriginal resistance in NSW
1930 - South Coastal - view
speak from a fruit box
1930 - South Coastal - view
1938 celebration of 150 years of white settlement
1930 - North West - 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