Day Of Mourning Protest In Australia

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Introduction: Australia Day (on the 26th January) is a day that a considerable amount of Indigenous Australians remembers as the 75th anniversary of the fight for Aboriginal rights and recognition in their own country, the place that they were born and raised. (2013)
Consequently, in the year of 1938, the Day of Mourning protest attracted a large group of Aboriginal Australians in Sydney, marking the monumental 150 years since the Europeans settled in Australia. Furthermore, they demanded that they the same citizen rights and equality as the rest of the Australian population, the Day of Mourning protest was the birth of the well-structured Aboriginal civil rights movement.

Furthermore, there was a 1967 referendum, which asked the people

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