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A searchable Aboriginal history timeline

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Australian Aboriginal history is the only history that grows both ways – forward into the present and backwards into the past as new scientific methods indicate that archaeological sites are much older than originally thought.

Just as we have learned about your history, please learn about ours.

— From the Ngambri petition claiming the area of Canberra, January 2007

Something that happened in December…

8 December 1966

The South Australian Lands Trust Act is the first-ever Act in Australia to recognise Aboriginal land rights and provide land ownership and compensation to dispossessed Aboriginal people. …

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[1] Koori Mail 394 p.11

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Korff, J 2020, A searchable Aboriginal history timeline, <https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australian-aboriginal-history-timeline/>, retrieved 8 December 2024

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