Aboriginal Rights In Australia

Aboriginal people have been mistreated for years and have been seen as animals and not as human beings or equals as generations have been stolen from their families as the culture started to die out for the stolen generations. And now to what extent has the rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people changed between 1945-2000? Aboriginal people weren’t given any right for over 100 years and were treated differently from the white people, but during the 60s the walls that were put up to separate them finally came down and were finally given their rights.
The rights of Aboriginals have changed so much from the before and after stage of the election during the 1960s. It was only in the 1967 referendum declared the Aboriginals as equals as 90 percent of Australia voted yes, leaving the 10 percent thinking and feeling differently about the new rights of Aboriginals, upgrading their lifestyle to ‘new opportunities in education, employment, equal pay, housing conditions and medical access.’ (makinghistoryatmacquarie, 2018) The Federal government gave special laws on their behalf, by this for the aboriginals it symbolised a fight for right, equality, freedom and a chance to be a part of the white …show more content…
Charles Perkins was the first aboriginal to complete university, had decided to run the freedom ride and document on the living conditions that the aboriginal people were living in and to show how they were treated. This helped change the minds of many and helped the aboriginal people have the same equal right as white people did. The trip was organised by some of the students of the University of Sydney and planned to travel around the coastal and western sides of New South Wales to expose the truth to those who were blind to see it and confronted the reality of what the aboriginal health, learning and housing conditions and finally had Australia seeing the

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