Australian Hall -- Aboriginal Australian Civil Rights 1938
Australian Hall,
Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW Australia
The location of what can be considered to be the first formal and mass Aboriginal Australian Civil Rights Meeting. On 26 January ('Australia Day') 1938 white Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the landing of the 'First Fleet'. While this was the beginning of Anglo-Celtic Australia, bringing troops , settlers and convicts, it is also seen as Invasion Day by many Indigenous members of Society. On the same date, a day of mourning was arranged by the 'Australian Aborigines League' (of Victoria) and the "Aborigines Progressive Association" (of New South Wales) to protest against 'the callous treatment of our people by the whitemen during the past 150 years'".
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