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1937 - North West - 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 - North West - 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 - North West - 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
1937 - North West - view
The government declines to forward it to the King after the 1938 Day of Mourning. (NAA)
1938 - North West - view
26 January, 1938, the 150th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet, a Day of Mourning and Protest
1938 - North West - view
“We, representing THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA, assembled in Conference at the Australian Hall, Sydney, on the 26th day of January, 1938, this being the 150th Anniversary of the whitemen’s seizure of our country, HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people by the whitemen during the past 150 years, AND WE APPEAL to the Australian Nation of today to make new laws for the education and care of Aborigines, and we ask for a new policy which will raise our people to FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.”
1938 - North West - view
Aborigines re-enact Governor Phillip’s landing at 150th anniversary celebrations. Aboriginal men are brought in from western NSW to re-enact the Aboriginal response to the landing of the First Fleet. They run up the beach as boats filled with British marines land at Farm Cove. A group of white dignitaries sit in comfortable safety watching the invasion
1938 - South Coastal - view
'Day of Mourning'
1938 - North West - view
They take ownership of Christianity, changing it for the benefit of Aboriginal people, rather than for their assimilation into white society
1938 - Central - view
The Australian Aborigines League and the Aboriginal Progressive Association hold the Day of Mourning
1938 - North West - view
Australian Aborigines Conference (APA), Day of Mourning
1939 - North West - view
NAIDOC Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 2008
1939 - North West - view
70 of the 350 Aboriginal residents on Cumeroogunga station on the NSW side of the Murray River protest against malnutrition, ill treatment and harsh APB controls. They cross the river and establish a camp on the Victorian bank
1939 - North West - view
charged by NSW police for inducing unrest
1940 - North West - view
American researcher working at the South Australian Museum helps break the academic veto on RH Mathews’ work on Aboriginal language, culture and estates
1940 - North West - view
Many Aboriginal people defer their activism to serve in the Australian army
1940 - North West - view
first Aboriginal officer in the Australian Army
1940 - North West - view
Secretary of the NSW Aborigines Progressive Association. He organises fund raising for returning soldiers