Time-Line -1 June 2016

'Chicka' Dixon :     Docker, Trade Unionist, Aboriginal rights activist.

                                 (1928-2010)

Turning points-




Achievements-   

     

In 2010 -          declared as Aboriginal of the Year, Tent Embassy activist, builders’ labourer,                         wharfie, university  lecturer, and former chair of the Aboriginal Arts Board                                 

                      he represented his people around the world, studied with the Canadian                                   Native Americans, did a bit of jail.                              

                    

                       was mates with prime ministers Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke and                            

                        addressed 10,000 Chinese people in the Great Hall of the People                                

                       he had a direct involvement with the left and labour movement

    In 1967 -     Chicka was one of the central campaigners for the 1967 referendum,                                     an active participant of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy .

    

    In  1970 -     a founder of the  Aboriginal Legal Service                

                      

                        the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait                                  Islanders (FCAATSI). 

                        Chicka Dixon provided a key link between the earlier generations of working-                         class Indigenous activists and the post-1967 young ``Black Power"                                        indigenous activists

Nelson Mandela's Biography 

Turning Point - 

•  Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society. The majority of Black South Africans had little opportunities either Economic or Political
• By the late 50s the S.A.state had become increasingly repressive making it more difficult for the ANC to operate. Mandela had to resign from the ANC and work underground.
• In 21 March  1960,  Sharpeville Massacre Event  of 63 black south Afican had turned him in a fighter   It was an event  at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 black African protesters went to the police station.That time Africa was increasingly isolated on the international scene and the government banned the ANC. This all led her to be  an advocate  for those black African armed struggler 
• Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
•  Mandela’s release in 1990.
• Nelson Mandela recently lost his eldest son to HIV epidemic disease .

Achievements- 

• Qualified as lawyer and opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa.
• Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League.
• 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa.
•  His advocacy of reconciliation led to international acclaim and importantly the trust of the White African population.
• In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizejointly with F.W. De Klerk

Time line - Fred Hollows

            Fred Hollows (1923-1993)

• 1923 - born in New Zealand 
• 1960 - got a job in Australia
• 1965 - became head of the  Eye Department at a Sydney hospital
• 1970 - helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians.
• 1980 -  established  eye health programs in developing countries.
• 1989 - knew about his suffering (cancer)
• 1993 -  died in New Zealand 

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                                 Kath Walker  (1920-1993) 

• 1920-  born in Australia
• 1941-  joined the Australian Women's Army Service 
• 1958-  joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
• 1960-   attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) annual conferences
• 1962-  becoming the first Queensland state secretary and  in Adelaide she read her 'Aboriginal Charter of Rights'
• 1964- first collection of poems" We are Going" was published by Jacaranda Press.
• 1968- attended a World Council of Churches consultation on racism in London changed her  political philosophy 
• 1970 -  supported FCAATSI(Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders ) constitution which  increased her  Indigenous power on the Federal Council.
• 1980 - return back to Stradbroke Island and  changed her name to Oodgeroo Noonuccal