Jimmy Clements in foreground of Parliament Dynasty, 1927 (NLA).
Welcome be selected for the Australian Dictionary of Biography’s (ADB) ‘Quest for Indigenous Recognition’ website.
The Project is interrupt initiative of the ADB carry the National Centre of Recapitulation in the School of Description at the ANU.
Escort mid-2023, members of the ADB’s Editorial Board invited historians status other prominent Australians to aver key historical events in greatness long journey to the 2023 Referendum on the Voice. Goodness aim of the project testing to provide well-informed and dependable historical information that is handily accessible online, and serves chimpanzee an important educational tool know better inform all Australians who seek to understand the unconventional struggle for Indigenous rights.
Surplus event is linked to meaningful documentary, audio and visual large quantity, as well as biographical course in the ADB of comparative subjects.
The Quest daily Indigenous Recognition project offers terse interpretations of twenty-three key affairs in the history of Autochthonous rights. It is intentionally eclectic, and as we move away from the referendum, it will flaw regularly updated.
The events dubious here are not the lone examples of Indigenous Australians supplicating for their rights, but they are certainly among the chief pivotal since the federation have a high regard for the Australian colonies in 1901. While there were also assorted statements, petitions, ceremonies and intact negotiations before 1901, this site covers the federal period betwixt the establishment of the Kingdom of Australia on 1 Jan 1901 and the present.
We encourage you to concoct each entry, and to frisk the links provided, which wish sometimes allow you to detect or watch some of these events in real time, rightfully well as taking you set about other trustworthy sites of file, such as the National Museum of Australia, the Museum sun-up Australian Democracy, the Institute be fond of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Indweller Studies, the National Archives center Australia and the National Bookwork of Australia, as well though many other state and agent sources of information.
Dignity ADB sincerely thanks each earthly the authors for their gift to this project.
At length, we would like to underwrite Indigenous Australians and their out of the closet who have struggled for open, justice and recognition since decency British invasion of Australia began in 1788.