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1990 - North West - view
Dancers transform the Great Hall at The University of Newcastle into a corroboree ground. The one-hour performance moved the audience of 2,500 people
1992 - North West - view
The High Court of Australia changes the nation’s common law when it brought down its decision in Mabo
1992 - South Coastal - view
Survival Day, originating in the 1988 march
1992 - North West - view
honorary doctorate from Newcastle University in recognition of his scholarship in traditional law
1993 - North West - view
World Indigenous Peoples’ Corroboree, Newcastle
1993 - North Coastal - view
Establishment of Cooee Classic surf contests from Black Rock to Manly by Virginia Gow and Caroline Glass-Pattison, Lois Birk and others.
1994 - North West - view
The founding motivation is to reduce the suffering of Aboriginal people at the hands of drugs and alcohol. Most especially, it seeks to get men out of the criminal justice system and into treatment for their addictions
1995 - North West - view
Aboriginal programs to engage and connect youth, provide cultural training and work skills, improve education outcomes and turn them into jobs
1995 - North West - view
Local production of "Bran Nue Dae" at the Community Arts Centre
1996 - North West - view
Wik Decision
1996 - North West - view
”Somewhere in the Darkness” is written in Newcastle area by playwright Ray and staged at Sydney Theatre Company
1997 - North West - view
Belvoir St Theatre and SOCOG production of “Black Mary” at the Wilson St Carriage works in Redfern
1997 - North West - view
The monument to “The Lost Tribes of the Hawkesbury” is forgotten for decades after it is unveiled in 1952 and surrounded by blackberries
1997 - North West - view
Newcastle City Bi-Centenary. Its foreshore commemorative activities focus on Reconciliation
1997 - North West - view
Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families
1998 - North West - view
The Council of the City of Newcastle acknowledges that Awabakal and Worimi are the first peoples of this council area, and are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of continuing dispossession
1998 - North West - view
Newcastle Council, in negotiation with Indigenous peoples, also commits itself to further reconciliation between Indigenous and other communities by working for a treaty and/or other agreements of reconciliation
1998 - North West - view
20,000 people trace and can claim descent from the Darug