Bringing them home
5. Track the History Timeline activity sheet - suggested answers
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Part A – Using the timeline
1. Students are required to list five events that directly relate to separation. Students will have their own perspective on this, although they should indicate reference to the specific changes in laws (such as the Aboriginal Protection Acts).
2. Suggested answers are provided for the events below, although students will have their own reasoning for explaining the connection.
Date |
Event |
How is it connected to the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children from their families? |
1770 |
James Cook claims possession of the whole east coast of Australia. Cook
raises the British flag at Possession Island, off Cape York Peninsula in
Queensland. |
Cook’s landing is significant because it marked the first
non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander settlement of Australia, and the
beginning of white colonisation. |
1901 |
Federation |
|
1937 |
First Commonwealth/ State conference on native welfare |
|
1948 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
|
1967 |
National referendum |
|
1993 |
International year of Indigenous people |
|
1996 |
High Court hands down Wik decision |
Part B – Group discussion: time, people and places
There are no set answers for this section.
