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1952 - North West - view
Dave Sands, national and Empire middleweight boxing champion and contender for the world title has died at the age of 26
1952 - North West - view
A stone obelisk monument to the “Lost Tribes of the Hawkesbury” is raised at the site of the old Sackville Reserve
1955 - South West - view
Many Aboriginal men are employed to cut and burn timber
1957 - West - view
The Gully community at Katoomba is destroyed following the construction of a racetrack in the Upper Katoomba Falls Creek Valley
1957 - South Coastal - view
leaves her position as Aboriginal member of the Aborigines Welfare
1958 - North West - view
Bert Groves, opposes the policy of assimilation, which he likens to extermination
1959 - North Coastal - view
The Foundation of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines, FCAA (later FCAATSI) is established. This organisation later includes the Indigenous members, Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Nunukal), Mum Shirl, Ken Brindle, Chicka Dixon and Bert Groves.
1959 - North Coastal - view
“Far West Children’s Health Scheme” at Manly is incorporated whose support includes Indigenous children.
1960 - North West - view
American Black Power Movement
1961 - North West - view
all aborigines and part-aborigines are expected eventually to attain the same manner of living as other Australians and to live as members of a single Australian community enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities, observing the same customs and influenced by the same beliefs, hopes and loyalties as other Australians
1961 - Central - view
Lester gets a beating from the police using rubber hoses and wet towels. ‘I got gangrene from the beating and my [foot?] had to be amputated’
1961 - Central - view
eight point policy of action demanding change including full citizenship and encouragement of co-operatives where possible