Australian Indigenous Rights

What was the outcome of the 1967 Referendum to amend the Australian Constitution?

• Indigenous Australians were granted the right to vote

• Indigenous Australians were included in the census

• Indigenous Australians were recognised by the United Nations Human Rights Council

• All of the above

What was the actual policy name of the Stolen Generation that was given in Victoria?

• The Aboriginal Reconciliation Bill

• The Aboriginal Protection Act

• The Indigenous Procreation Initiative

• The Aboriginal Prosperity Initiative

What year did the Stolen Generation begin in Australia?

• 1914

• 1869

• 1911

• Trick question - the Stolen Generation was the result of various policies put forward by various governments at different times. There is no one, single date.

Why did the Australian State Governments want to enact the Aboriginal Protection Act?

• To protect British settlers from Aboriginal violence.

• To 'breed out' the black colour of the Indigenous Peoples and eradicate the aboriginal 'race'.

• To deny aboriginal people the rights and freedoms of white Australians.

• Because the Federal Government had not been formed yet and the states wanted total control.

What is a referendum?

• A big word
• A direct vote by citizens of an electorate on a change to the constitution
• A change to the constitution
• A vote on a change to the constitution by non-citizens

What is the term for giving up your own minority culture and adopting the culture of the majority?

• Acculturation
• Assimilation
• Primogeniture
• Heredity

What is the Stolen Generation?

• A generation of people who moved out of the country
• A generation that survived on stealing from Europeans
• A generation of Indigenous Australians that were taken and raised by white people
• A generation of babies that disappeared mysteriously, likely stolen and raised by kangaroos and dingos

Why did the government take mixed race Aboriginal children from their families?

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider white population.

• Government thought these children could be better used as servants.

• Government thought their parents could not look after them

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider black population.

What happened to Aboriginal people on reserves and missions?

• They were taught to reject their European ways of life

• They were injected with smallpox

• They were taught to reject their Aboriginality and had to convert to Christianity

• They were taught to speak English and how to fight

Which of the following details the affect of British settlement towards to Australia's Aboriginals?

• Loss of home and traditional hunting grounds

• Loss of culture

• Death through smallpox and other diseases

• All of the above