Aboriginal Land Rights Protests

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Across
  1. 2. The year the Native Title Act was passed, 199_.
  2. 3. Type of station that the Aboriginal people at Wave Hill had worked on
  3. 5. The year that the tent embassy began, 197_.
  4. 6. The petition by the Yirrkala people in 1963 was written on this.
  5. 9. The Wik case found that the rights of these people would prevail over the rights of any native title holders.
  6. 10. City where the tent embassy was established
  7. 12. The state of Australia that the Wik people went to court against.
  8. 13. Important land rights case in 1996
  9. 14. Nickname of the island that Mabo was from
  10. 17. Surname of the Aboriginal leader who symbolically received the Wave Hill land back from the then Prime Minister
Down
  1. 1. Place where the reconciliation march in the year 2000 took place, Sydney _____ _____.
  2. 2. The notion that Australia was this when the English arrived in Australia was rejected in the Mabo decision - ______ nullius
  3. 4. Surname of the Prime Minister who gave the traditional people of Wave Hill their land back
  4. 7. Territory where the Wave Hill Protest took place
  5. 8. The lawn of this venue was where the tent embassy was established, ________ house.
  6. 11. The name of the Aboriginal people who protested at Wave Hill
  7. 15. First name of Mabo
  8. 16. The year that the Aboriginal people of Wave Hill got their land back, 197_.