A Time of Change...
Activity One - Primary Source Analysis, Indigenous rights in the 1950s and 1960s
Using the Primary Source Documents Bellow, analyse the sources and discuss the following:
Using the Primary Source Documents Bellow, analyse the sources and discuss the following:
- What is this source about?
- What sorts of rights does it talk about?
- What does it tell us about the right of Aborigines in the 1950s and 1960s?
indigenous_rights_primary_sources.pdf |
Activity Two - The 1965 Freedom Rides
Step One - Watch the following YouTube clips to gain a better understanding of the 1965 Freedom Rides.
Step One - Watch the following YouTube clips to gain a better understanding of the 1965 Freedom Rides.
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Step Two - Using you knowledge and research skills answer the following questions about the Freedom Rides
Injustice
- Identify unfair practices that the Freedom Riders wanted to change, for example the discrimination that existed in some New South Wales country towns.
- Include examples of the strategies used by the Freedom Riders, for example demonstrations and engaging the media. How were these actions influenced by the US Civil Rights Movement?
- What evidence is there to suggest that life improved for the Aboriginal residents of the towns that were visited by the Freedom Riders?
Activity Three - The 1967 Referendum
Use pages 1, 2 & 3 of the Document bellow to consider how the Australian Constitution discriminated against Aborigines.
Having read the Document answer the following questions:
Use pages 1, 2 & 3 of the Document bellow to consider how the Australian Constitution discriminated against Aborigines.
Having read the Document answer the following questions:
- What does Section 51 say about the powers of the Federal Government to pass laws about Aborigines?
- What are the implications of not being counted in the population?
- What’s a census?
- How do governments use census data?
- How might Indigenous Australians of the 1960s have felt about Section 127?
about_the_1967_referendum.pdf |