Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Day of Mourning Fact File

    Uploaded by

    Keira Gatenby
    12 views1 page
    On Australia Day 1938, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples marched on Sydney Town Hall to protest discrimination and demand equal rights and citizenship. Led by William Cooper, William Ferguson, and Jack Patten, they called for land rights, employment opportunities, improved living standards, and an end to policies removing Aboriginal children from families. When denied a congress, they held one at Australia Hall, distributing a pamphlet outlining their demands. However, their requests presented to the Prime Minister were rejected, and discrimination continued until civil rights reforms in the 1960s.

    Original Description:

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    On Australia Day 1938, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples marched on Sydney Town Hall to protest discrimination and demand equal rights and citizenship. Led by William Cooper, William Ferguson, and Jack Patten, they called for land rights, employment opportunities, improved living standards, and an end to policies removing Aboriginal children from families. When denied a congress, they held one at Australia Hall, distributing a pamphlet outlining their demands. However, their requests presented to the Prime Minister were rejected, and discrimination continued until civil rights reforms in the 1960s.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    12 views1 page

    Day of Mourning Fact File

    Uploaded by

    Keira Gatenby
    On Australia Day 1938, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples marched on Sydney Town Hall to protest discrimination and demand equal rights and citizenship. Led by William Cooper, William Ferguson, and Jack Patten, they called for land rights, employment opportunities, improved living standards, and an end to policies removing Aboriginal children from families. When denied a congress, they held one at Australia Hall, distributing a pamphlet outlining their demands. However, their requests presented to the Prime Minister were rejected, and discrimination continued until civil rights reforms in the 1960s.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 1

    Day of Mourning

    When? What were their demands?


    th
    Australia Day (January 26 ) 1938 - Called for equal rights
    - Land to be returned
    Where? - Equal Employment
    Australia Hall, Sydney What is it?
    - Day of protest for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Opportunities
    Island Peoples - Improvements in health
    What was the purpose? - ‘It was the day we lost our land, lost our spirit culture, standards
    - The purpose was to raise lost our language. Today we have no land. No rights.’ - Improvements in housing and
    awareness among the non- education standards
    Indigenous population of Australia - Equal rights to education
    of how throughout history, the ATSI What happened? - Equality in pay and conditions
    peoples had been discriminated - March on Sydney’s Town Hall - Have bank accounts
    against, and to encourage them to - Supposed to end there with a congress, but they - Access to pensions
    agree to their request for equal were denied - Receive cash wages
    citizenship. - Congress relocated to Australia Hall - Aboriginal children to no longer
    - Patten and Ferguson created a pamphlet called be taken from their families
    ‘Aborigines Claim Citizenship Rights’, this was - Representation of Aboriginal
    Who was involved? distributed at the meeting people in parliament
    - Led by three Aboriginal men - Reiterated what the day meant and what has - Recognition of Aboriginal law
    1. William Cooper from the AAL happened to them since they were invaded - End of the Aboriginal Protection
    2. William Ferguson establisher of - Stated that even though the government said Board and Aborigines Protection
    the APA they were protected, they aren’t really and are Act
    3. Jack Patten, President of the APA discriminated against

    What were the outcomes?


    - A list of 10 points was derived from the meeting and presented to the PM, Joseph Lyons. He did not accept them, so they were still
    excluded from the census, couldn’t vote and were not registered citizens.
    - Under the leadership of Harold Holt, their rights began to change. In 1967, a referendum changed the constitution so that Aboriginal
    people were now counted as part of Australia’s population and allowed the Commonwealth to make laws in regard to them.

    You might also like