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Five Australians: Charles Perkins campaigns for Aboriginal rights

Video Five Australians: Charles Perkins campaigns for Aboriginal rights

TLF ID M018107

Why was 1967 a turning point in the struggle for legal equality and the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples? In this clip, we encounter leading Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins as he addresses a range of public meetings held to raise awareness of racial discrimination and to bring about change for Indigenous Australians. This clip is one in a series of two.

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10

Topics Aboriginal history Native title Activism Australian history Legal equality Reasoning Referenda Terrorism Evidence Judgement Explanations (Factual texts) Political leaders Information retrieval Torres Strait Islander history Chronological order Causality Secondary sources Historical periods Primary sources Significant people Historical sources
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  • History
  • Humanities and Social Sciences

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