The timeline has been adapted from more detailed timelines located on the websites below.
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The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle, is incorporated in NT welfare legislation to ensure that Indigenous children are placed with Indigenous families when adoption or fostering is necessary. This is followed in Victoria (1989)
Enrolment and voting in Commonwealth elections is now compulsory for Aboriginal people.
Commonwealth government returns Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park (including Uluru/Ayer’s Rock) in the NT to its traditional Aboriginal owners.
The High Court rejected doctrine of Terra Nullius and concluded that consequently Native Title could have survived on lands where it had not been extinguished.
The Commonwealth parliament introduces The Native Title Act. It was amended in 1998 & 2006.
The state governments of Australia formally apologise to the Aboriginal people [1]
Wathaurong acknowledged as owners of Wurdi Youang astrological stone arrangement with traditional knowledge of the site’s sanctity.
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