Minoru Hokari, On the way to the 2017 1966 TIMELINE 1967 Gurindji country, 1997. Courtesy the 1997 The Royal Commission into Institutional On 22–23 August Gurindji/ Estate of Minoru Hokari. 1937 1939 A national referendum is held to amend the PhD student Minoru Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Malngin elder, Vincent Lingiari, Hokari conducts Gurindji, Bilinarra, The first Commonwealth/State conference on ‘native The Communist Party of Constitution. The 90.77% YES vote confers power on Case Study No. 17. On 30 March the leads 200 plus stockmen and research with Gurindji welfare’ adopts assimilation as the national policy. Australia, formed in 1920, the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people. Commonwealth, a convicted paedophile, Nyininy, Mudburra, their families off Wave Hill people, later published was the first Australian and Australian Indigenous Ministries Station. The Wave Hill Walk-Off 1997 in a book Gurindji Malgnin, Ngarinman and 1928 political party to develop 1968 agreed to compensate 71 former segued from a strike for equal The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity journey: A Japanese associated peoples have Coniston Massacre policy regarding Aboriginal Author and CPA member Frank Hardy’s book residents of the home. It’s the first wages to a nine-year fight for 8 Commission (HREOC) releases ‘Bringing Them historian in the outback. On 7 August 1928, Fred Books, a white dingo trapper, Australians. The Party provided The unlucky Australians is published in 1968. time the Federal Government will pay been traditional custodians their traditional homelands, Home’ its report on the findings of the ‘National was found murdered on Coniston Station in central vital support for the 1946 compensation after public hearings at sparking the national land 1969 Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and of the Victoria River region Australia. He was killed for ‘breaching Aboriginal Pilbara strike and the Gurindji the child sex abuse Royal Commission. rights movement.7 Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families marriage law’, according to Aboriginal accounts of the Walk-Off from Wave Hill.4 By 1969, all states have repealed the legislation for over 50,000 years. allowing for the removal of Aboriginal children to the Commonwealth Government’. The report 2016 time. Over a period of months at different sites, at least Brian Manning, Gurindji men and sign painted for them by Frank 1997 1939 under the policy of ‘protection’. In the following made 54 recommendations, including a formal In December, the late Brian Manning’s 60 Aboriginal people were shot and killed in reprisals Hardy at Wattie Creek, 1967. Standing (L-R) Bruce Peter, Sammy Alec Kruger and others v. The Commonwealth of years, Aboriginal and Islander Child Care agencies government apology, monetary compensation Bedford Truck is donated to the National conducted by non-Indigenous people, which collectively Kahlin Compound closes after all Pangkalis, Captain Major Lupngiari, Mick Pelasco, Vincent Australia. Eight inhabitants of the Northern Territory are set up to contest removal applications and and other reparations to members of the Stolen Museum of Australia. The truck, became known as the Coniston Massacre, the last residents were moved to the new Bagot Lingiari, Mick Rangiari. Sitting (L-R) Starlight Wijina Kipiyarri (Australia) who had been taken from their families Japarta, Roger Japarta, Joe Randall, Jerry Rinyngayarri, Rodney provide alternatives to the removal of Indigenous Generations. The parliaments and governments which transported supplies to Gurindji known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Aboriginal Reserve in 1938. between 1925 and 1944 under the Aboriginals Australians. No charges were laid against the reprisal Pajiyarri Loman, Old Major, Charlie Pincher Nyurrmiari, Horace children from their families. of all states and the ACT issue apologies to the community on many occasions during 1944–46 Walmun, Timmy Vincent. Courtesy the Estate of Brian Manning. Stolen Generations. Ordinance of 1918 (which allowed the forced removal the nine-year Walk-Off, had been placed party. A Board of Enquiry set up to investigate the killings of children of mixed Aboriginal descent), and a mother, 2 Social anthropologists Ronald and Catherine 1970 on the NT Heritage Register in 2011. ruled the party had ‘acted in self-defence’. Gurindji 1965 1854 Berndt investigated labour conditions on Frank Hardy speaks at the NSW Teachers 1988 Rose Napangardi McClary, whose child had been taken oral histories document massacres occurring during the The North Australian Workers Union, under pressure from her under the same law, sought a declaration that 2016 Augustus Charles Gregory leads first 3 Vestey-owned cattle stations in the Northern Federation, where the Save the Gurindji On 26 January, Australia’s bicentennial, 60,000 establishment of Wave Hill and Limbunya Stations. from the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal the Ordinance was unconstitutional. They instituted On 23 August the 50th anniversary non-Indigenous exploration through Territory. The report exposes the conditions campaign is launched. The campaigners lead plus people – Indigenous and non-Indigenous Rights, applies to the Commonwealth Conciliation legal proceedings in 1995. In July 1997, the High Court of the Gurindji Walk-Off is held. the Victoria River region, followed by faced by Aboriginal workers. Despite legislation, a protest march from Redfern to Martin Place, – march through Sydney from Redfern to Hyde 1924 Aboriginal children under 12 are working illegally, and Arbitration Commission to delete references Park with banners proclaiming, ‘Our land, our life’ rejected all their arguments and held that the Ordinance Alexander Forrest in 1879. with Paul Coe, Dexter Daniels, Sol Bellear and 11 2016 The original Wave Hill accommodation and rations are inadequate, in the Northern Territory’s pastoral award that and ‘White Australia has a Black History’, among was not unconstitutional. Later cases were also Brian Aarons, among others. On 28 July the Royal Commission 1883 Station at Malyalyimalyalyi there is sexual abuse of Aboriginal women, and discriminate against Aboriginal workers. Pastoralists other statements of social justice and land rights. unsuccessful until 2017. into the Child Protection and Youth The original Wave Hill Station and Lipanangku was prostitution for rations and clothing takes place. meet this proposal with stiff opposition and argue 1972 Detention Systems of the Northern is established at Wave Hill by washed away in a flood. No sanitation or rubbish removal facilities are that any increase in wages should be gradual as this The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is established opposite 1983 Territory is established, following the Nathaniel Buchanan and the The new station was provided, nor is there safe drinking water. would help Aboriginal people to ‘adjust’. Parliament House in Canberra by four young The Aboriginal Child Placement Principal intense public outcry at the abuse of Gordon Brothers. established at Jinparrak, Indigenous activists, Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, is introduced in the Northern Territory, 1961 Indigenous children in the Don Dale occupied until after the 1946 Bertie Williams and Tony Koorey9, representing aiming to ensure that Indigenous children 1901 The Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights Youth Detention Centre at Berrimah, 1966 walk-off. Retta Dixon Home is established at Bagot Road Indigenous peoples being treated as ‘aliens in their are placed with Indigenous families when (NTCAR) is formed by George and Moira Gibbs, and Darwin, broadcast on Four Corners: Australia becomes a federation. Aboriginal Reserve in 1946 by the Aborigines own land’. The Tent Embassy quickly gained thousands adoption or fostering is necessary. Brian Manning in Darwin in late 1961. The Darwin ‘Australia’s Shame’ ABC-TV on 25 July. Indigenous peoples are excluded Michael Terry, Stockyards at the original site of Wave Hill Inland Mission (AIM). RDH moved to new of Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters and had waterside workers had maintained their strong 1976 from the constitution. Station just after the devastating 1924 flood, Northern cottage style accommodation on the reserve violent clashes against the police.10 2008 Territory, 1925. PIC/8847/6/47. Pictures Collection, in 1962, where it operated until 1982.5 support for Aboriginal people’s rights that began The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern 1911 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf National Library of Australia. in the 1920s. Aboriginal members included Jacob 1972 Territory) Act is passed, the first legislation The Northern Territory Aboriginals 1950s and Philip Roberts, Dexter Daniels and Robert of the Australian Parliament, makes a The Labor Party comes to power. Prime Minister allowing for a claim of land title if the Ordinance (Cth) gives the Chief 1914 Tudawali with NTCAR played a central organising historic national apology to the Stolen Aboriginal Scholarships, known as Abschol, Gough Whitlam announces in his election policy Indigenous claimants can provide evidence Protector power to assume custody British pastoral company Vesteys buy Wave Hill Station role in supporting the Gurindji walk-off in 1966.6 Generations. The Senate rejects the begins as a committee of the National Union speech that his government will “establish of their traditional relationship to the land. of any Aboriginal or ‘half-caste’ if it is from Buchanan Family. In 1954 Vesteys took out the first of Australian University