Rights and freedoms Defining Moments, 1945–present

1.1 Your task 1.2 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1.3 1949 Nationality and Citizenship Act 1.4 1956 First nuclear weapons test by British at Maralinga 1.5 1959 Social Services Act 1.6 1962 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ right to vote 1.7 1963 Yirrkala bark petitions 1.8 1965 Freedom Ride 1.9 1965 Gurindji strike (Wave Hill Walk-Off) 1.10 1967 Indigenous referendum 1.11 1968 Equal wages decision 1.12 1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy 1.13 1975 Racial Discrimination Act 1.14 1976 Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1.15 1980 Noonkanbah blockade 1.16 1985 Uluru handback 1.17 1988 Opening of the new Parliament House 1.18 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 1.19 1992 Mabo High Court decision 1.20 1993 Native Title Act 1.21 1997 Bringing Them Home report (Stolen Generations) 1.22 2000 Walk for Reconciliation across Sydney Harbour Bridge 1.23 2004 Palm Island death in custody and riot 1.24 2005 Abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) 1.25 2007 Northern Territory National Emergency Response 1.26 2008 National Apology to the Stolen Generations 1.27 2009 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples