Aborgines Act 1905 (1906 - 1964)
- Rosser, D. (2017, March 12). Western Australian Legislation: Aborigines Act 1905 (1906 - 1964). Retrieved from https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/biogs/WE00406b.htm
The Aborigines Act 1905 remained in force as the key piece of legislation governing matters relating to Aboriginal people for nearly 60 years in Western Australia. It was described by Tilbrook in Nyungar Tradition (p.5) as placing all people of Aboriginal descent in Western Australia in a 'rejected section of Australian society'. The Act established the position of Chief Protector who was the legal guardian of 'every aboriginal and half-caste child' to the age of 16 years. - Rosser, D. (2011, July 18). Native Welfare Act 1963 (1963 - 1972). Retrieved from https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/biogs/WE00423b.htm#relatedThe Native Welfare Act 1963 repealed Aborigines Act 1905 and all the Acts that ammended the 1905 Act. Under the 1963 Act the Commissioner of Native Welfare ceased to be the guardian of Aboriginal children, but was responsible for the 'custody, maintenance and education of the children of natives'. TheNative Welfare Act 1963 was repealed by the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act 1972.
Government
- National Museum of Australia. (2015). White Australia Policy. Retrieved from http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/defining_moments/featured/white_australia_policy_beginsOn 23 December 1901, the Immigration Restriction Act came into law. The legislation was specifically designed to limit non-British migration to Australia and allowed for the deportation of ‘undesirable’ people who had settled in any Australian colony prior to federation. It represented the formal establishment of the ‘White Australia policy’.
- National Museum of Australia. (2015). White Australia policy ends. Retrieved from http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/defining_moments/featured/end_of_the_white_australia_policyThe Migration Act 1966 established legal equality between British, European and non-European migrants to Australia.
- National Archives of Australia. (2016). Harold Holt's disappearance – Fact sheet 144. Retrieved from http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs144.aspxHarold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria on 17 December, 1967. His body was never recovered.
- Duff, X. (2014, May 9). Crime Week — The story of Ronald Ryan the last man hanged in Australia. Retrieved from http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/crime-week-the-story-of-ronald-ryan-the-last-man-hanged-in-australia/story-fni0cx12-1226910836777
Ronald Ryan was the last man to be hanged in Australia in 1967 but he did not turn to crime until a relatively mature age. While most would think Ryan must have committed to most horrific of crimes it may surprise you just what he swung for.
Nghien, P. (2012, April 30). The History of Vietnamese Refugees to Australia - Lòng nhân đạo của chính phủ ÚC [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hkUKXerM38
Vietnam War
- Australian War Memorial. (n.d.). National Service Scheme. Retrieved from https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/conscription/vietnam/Compulsory military training for the nation's young men was reintroduced in 1951 by the Liberal Government.
- Thomas, J. (2015, April 14). The Vietnamese refugees who changed white Australia. Retrieved from http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/14/vietnamese-refugees-who-changed-white-australiaA surge in Vietnamese immigration to Australia after the Vietnam War was the first test for multiculturalism after the White Australia Policy ended.
- Langford, S. (n.d.). Appendix: The national service scheme, 1964-72. Retrieved from https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/viet_app/The National Service scheme was introduced by the Menzies Government in November 1964 and operated until December 1972, when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government suspended it.
- Australian War Memorial. (n.d.). Vietnam War 1962–75. Retrieved from https://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/vietnam/The arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) in South Vietnam during July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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AustralianWarVideos. (2010, February 12). Australians at War - Vietnam Part 1 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy1vsgZnAkY
Stan Grant
Grant, S. (2016, January 19). ICQ2 racism debate [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEOssW1rw0I
Indigenous Australians
- Broome, R. (2018). Stolen Generations. In World Book Student. Retrieved from https://www-worldbookonline-com.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/student/article?id=ar750182Stolen Generations is a term that refers to Australian children, mainly of mixed Aboriginal and European descent, who were taken from their homes by Australian governments. The removals started in about 1870 and lasted until about 1970. Thousands of children were separated from their families and placed in institutions, missions, and foster homes. In many cases, all ties between parents and children ended once they were separated.
- Australian Government. (2015, May 20). Sorry Day and the Stolen Generations. Retrieved from http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/sorry-day-stolen-generationsThe first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 – one year after the tabling of the report Bringing them Home, May 1997. The report was the result of an inquiry into the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.
- McKeon, N. (2016, March 2). Vincent Lingiari & Gough Whitlam: the story behind the image. Retrieved from http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/03/02/vincent-lingiari-gough-whitlam-story-behind-imageThe historically significant gesture of pouring of a handful of red soil by Gough Whitlam into Vincent Lingiari’s hand on 16 August 1975, symbolised the legal transfer of Wave Hill station back to the Gurindji people.
- Sutton, R. (2014, March 11). Myths persist about the 1967 referendum. Retrieved from http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/10/myths-persist-about-1967-referendumThe 1967 referendum regarding Aboriginal rights has long been regarded as a pivotal point in modern Aboriginal history in Australia. But exactly what pivoted on that day? For 47 years, and even just recently, that has been the source of considerable misunderstanding, both within Aboriginal communities and without.
- AIATSIS. (n.d.). Commemorating the Freedom Ride. Retrieved from http://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/1965-freedom-rideThe '65 Freedom Ride drew national and international attention to the poor living conditions of Aboriginal people and the racism that was rife in New South Wales country towns from 12 – 26 February 1965.
- VCAA. (n.d.). About the 1967 Referendum. Retrieved from http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/auscurric/sampleunit/1967referendum/aboutreferendum.pdfExplores the treatment of Indigenous Australians up until the 1967 referendum to change sections of the Australian Constitution.
- Bennett, S. (2012, November). The 1967 Aborigines Referendum. Retrieved from http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/1301.0Feature%20Article12004An article by Scott Bennett from the Parliamentary Library includes feedback from whites Australians in regard to the 1967 Referendum:
"We've taken his lands, decimated his tribes, degraded his women, taken away his dignity and forced him to live in squalor. This is our chance to make some sort of amends."
"We still have a long way to go. But at least we can make a start at treating him as an equal." - "Australian Aboriginal peoples." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 May. 2018. school-eb-com-au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/middle/article/Australian-Aboriginal-peoples/272686#338241.toc. Accessed 23 May. 2018.Aboriginal peoples were the first people to live in Australia. Together with the Torres Strait Islander peoples, they are known as Indigenous Australians. This articles outlines the events that took place after Europeans settled.
- Prout, S., Green,. G., & McHenry, J. (2012). Aboriginal Housing in Geraldton - the historical and policy contexts . Retrieved from https://www.cgg.wa.gov.au/documents/93/aboriginal-housing-in-geraldton-the-historical-and-policy-contexts
This report presents the key threads of the historical narrative of Aboriginal housing
in Geraldton. It highlights important progressive changes over time. It also highlights
a number of long-standing and unresolved struggles that local Aboriginal people
have been engaged in to secure positive housing outcomes in Geraldton.
emm800. (2014, September 6). 1967 Aboriginal Referendum [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP3erXVb3K0
Eric Edgar Cooke
- Collins, H. (2016). Cooke, Eric Edgar (1931–1964). Retrieved from http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooke-eric-edgar-9817Eric Edgar Cooke (1931-1964), murderer, was born on 25 February 1931 at Victoria Park, Perth, eldest of three children of Vivian Thomas Cooke, a native-born shop-assistant, and his wife Christian, née Edgar, from Scotland.
- The West Australian. (2013). How Perth learned to lock up. Retrieved from http://thewest2.smedia.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/Olive/APA/thewest-archives/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=WAN%2F2013%2F01%2F26&id=Ar08000&sk=0905001CIt was January 24, 1960, and our family lived in Orrong Road in Rivervale. Cooke lived in the street behind us. We’d come home and it was late by the time we were all heading off to sleep. My boyfriend, Colin, now my husband, was in the back sleepout. I was about 16 or 17. I was just leaving him to come back inside and I saw someone crouched at the steps of the back veranda with his shoes in his hands.
- Blackburn, E. (2002). Silent witness. Bulletin With Newsweek, 120(6336), 28.Reports the granting of court appeal to convicts John Button and Darryl Beamish in Australia; Confession of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke as the killer of Rosemary Anderson and Jillian MacPherson Brewer;
- Blackburn, E. (2013, January 21). The making of a serial killer. Retrieved from https://www.cla.asn.au/Article/2013/Eric%20Edgar%20Cooke.pdfEric Edgar Cooke was a perfect fit for the serial killer type identified by criminal profilers.
Broken lives by Call Number: 364.1523 BLAISBN: 9781740640732Publication Date: 2001Eric Edgar Cooke stalked the city of Perth for months, shooting strangers in the dead of night and using a sickening variety of weapons to steal the lives of strangers. Unknown to the terror-stricken citizens of this trusting, emerging metropolis, the young father of seven children who pulled the trigger had for years been doing other sinister night work. In a remarkable twist of fate, the killer's life tangled with that of 19-year-old John Button, whose 17-year-old girlfriend was killed. Both men confessed to that crime. This riveting investigation into the life and untold crimes of the last man to hang in Western Australia reveals new evidence to indicate that at least one innocent man, John Button, went to jail for one of Cooke's murders.
