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Key words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Protectionism Policy Australia | starting in the late 19th century, colonial state governments began enacting "protectionist" policies . This involved controlling all aspects of their lives, via a system of reserve confinement, institutionalisation and forced child removals. |
| Self-determination | an 'on going process of choice' to ensure that Indigenous communities are able to meet their social, cultural and economic needs. |
| Referendum | a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. |
| Direct action | the use of strikes, demonstrations, or other public forms of protest rather than negotiation to achieve one's demands. |
| Non-violent protest | This strategy was promoted by Martin Luther King Jr., and many others instead of more aggressive tactics. |
| Bus Boycott | Because Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of the bus (the "white" section), African Americans stopped riding the buses |
| Petrov Affair | The Petrov Affair was a Cold War spy incident in Australia in April 1954, concerning Vladimir Petrov, Third Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Canberra. |
| Forward Defence | The policy followed by the Menzies government in the 1950's and 1960's that Australia should have the capacity to defend its vital interests by taking action away from the Australian mainland. |
| Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighbouring nations will also come under Communist control. |
| Vietnam War | A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States. |
| Capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
| Communism | A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |
| Redfern Park Speech (1992) | The first time an Australian Prime Minister, in this case Paul Keating, publicly acknowledged the injustices past policies had brought to Indigenous peoples. |
| Native Title Act 1993 | The federal government's way of clarifying the law relating to the Mabo case/providing the legal means to deal with future land rights claims. To succeed, Indigenous people had to prove they have had a 'traditional connection' with the land since 1788 |
| Terra Nullius | "Land belonging to no one", what the British considered Australia because nomads did not occupy land permanently that they could take and use for their own purposes |
| Mabo Case (1992) | The High Court of Australia decision recognising native title in Australia for the first time/rejected the doctrine of terra nullius. the Parliament of Australia, led by Prime Minister Paul Keating, enacted the Native Title Act 1993. |
| John F. Kennedy (JFK) | president created first civil rights bill of 1960s & protected freedom riders with federal escorts |
| Martin Luther King | United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned for non violent protests against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) |
| Day of Mourning | The protest held by Indigenous people on Australia Day in 1938 to mark 150 years of oppression |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | a social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills |
| Decolonisation | The process a country undergoes to free itself politically, economically, and culturally from a colonial past. |
| Dispossession | the action of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions. |
| Sorry Speech | National address delivered by Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008 to formally aologise to Australia's Stolen Generations and their descendents for the actions of past governments. |
| Stolen Generations | refers to Aboriginal children who were removed from their families and communities by government or non-government agencies in order to enforce intergration into society; the practice continued in some areas untill the 1970s |
| White Power Structure | Exposes white dominance in society |
| Freedom Rides | a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and Whites who rode buses together through American states in the south |
| Charles Perkins | An Indigenous man who rose to be the leader of the Freedom Ride and a Head of the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs. |
| Stokely Carmichael | Coined the phrase "black power" and led SNCC away from a nonviolent approach. |
| Sit-ins | to protest at lunch counters that served only whites, African Americans students began staging this |
| Reconciliation | acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of this land and recognising that these peoples were dispossessed, persecuted and oppressed as a result of colonisation in Australia. |
| Assimilation Policy Australia | a policy of absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the process of removing children from their families. |
| Colonisation | The action of non-aboriginal people settling among indigenous people and taking control away from them and instead to them selfs |
| Human Rights | A right that is believed to belong and is justifiable to every person |
| UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) | The United nations out line of human rights that eveone is intitaled to based on the belief that all humans are born free and equal in dignity aswell as rights, and it condemns inhumane acts to happen towards anyone. |
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