Rights and Freedoms

4. The process of restoring friendly relations and understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
10. The practice of actively campaigning to bring about social or political change.
11. The enforced separation of different racial groups in daily life, such as schools, transport, and public places.
12. A national vote in which citizens decide on a specific issue or change to the constitution.
15. Rights,The campaign and legal recognition of Indigenous Australians’ rights to own and control their traditional lands.

1. Rights, The basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world.
2. Riders, Groups of activists who rode interstate buses in the 1960s to challenge racial segregation in public transport.
3. Luther King Jnr, The civil rights leader famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech advocating for racial equality in the USA.
5. Rights, The movement seeking equal treatment and protection under the law for all citizens, especially minorities.
6. Generation, Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their families by Australian government policies.
7. A system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination that was practised in South Africa.
8. Embassy, The symbolic protest site established by Aboriginal activists on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra in 1972.
9. The landmark legal case that recognised Indigenous Australians’ traditional rights to land for the first time.
13. Parks, The African American woman who famously refused to give up her bus seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
14. Title, The recognition by Australian law of Indigenous peoples’ traditional rights to their land.