This is my inquiry prosses.
The timeline of the project, Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
What we did first, the first thing we did was get into our groups and choice the subject we wanted to learn and we did a vote on it. My group choice was fist going to be freedom riders but at the last second we did a big change and went with the Aboriginal Tent Embassy because we thought that, that subject would suit as more and we would be more into it and that means we would then learn more. So after finding the subject that we are doing we did a lot of research. Me and another member in our group was researching the whole thing using a good web site and the other one was searching on google the things like when where and why because that is the thing we had to do with the researching. Down bellow this is the research we did.
nma.gov.au/defining-moments/ resorces/aboriginal-tent-embassy
It was on 26 of january 1972. Four indigenous men got set up at the beach umbrella opposite of Parlament house in canberra. The men were protesting the Mcmohon governemt’s approach to the Indigenous land rights.
The embassy operated in a number of locations and took many forms before its permanent establishment on those same lawns in 1992.
The goals of the protester changed over time land rights Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.
with it’s flags proudly in the breeze the Aboriginal Embassy has been very successful.
Indigenous Australians have been fighting to retain the rights to their traditional land.
The human rights of the aboriginal people should be the same as the setterles, in 1770 they came then they tride to wype them out in 1779.
In 1967 is when Aboriginal Australian were finally recognised as citizens even through most people where still rasist to them.
1971 milirrpum v nabalco northern territory Supreme Court case also highlighted the issue of land rights. In 1963 after traditional lands of the Yolngu people in Arnhem Land were sold without consultation to Nablaco, a bauxite mining company. 7 traditional owners of the lade mad e attempts to have the land returned.
On the eve of Australia day they gave there traditinal land to Indigenous people in favour of 50-year general purpose leases for Indigenous communities, provided they could demonstrate a social and economic use for the land and excluding any mineral and forest rights.
After the McMahon government’s announcement, many protest groups sprang into action, including a group from Redfern in Sydney. Four members of this group – Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Bertie Williams and Tony Coorey – drove to Canberra and set up a beach umbrella on the lawns opposite (what is now Old) Parliament House.
Complete rights to the Northern Territory as a state within Australia and the installation of a primarily Aboriginal State Parliament. These rights would include all mining rights to the land
Ownership and mining rights of all other Aboriginal reserve lands in Australia
The preservation of all sacred sites in Australia
Ownership of areas in major cities, including the mining rights
Compensation for lands that were not able to be returned starting with $6 billion and including a percentage of the gross national income every year.
A visit from Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam to discuss the five-point plan was seen by activists as a great success in gaining recognition for their cause and having their ideas heard by those in positions of power.
The embassy grew a lot and by april having at least ten tents. It got non Indigenous people and indigenous poeple. Cananda help with Russia.
The tent embassy was gainig media attention across Australia and internationally it became a center protest.
Some of the well known aboriginal people are Gary Foley, Roberta Sykes, John Newfong, Chicka Dixon and Gordon Briscoe to name a few.
While the embassy enjoyed wide support it also faced a large contingwnt of politicains and members of the general public who believed that the protest was nothing more than trespassing, and a blot on the Canberra landsape.
On july hundreds of potesters clashed with the police in a violent brawl after officers tried to move people along and removed the embassy tents. many protesters were arrested and tents were torn down. this happend again next Sunday.
Complete rights to the Northern Territory as a state within Australia and the installation of a primarily Aboriginal State Parliament. These rights would include all mining rights to the land
Ownership and mining rights of all other Aboriginal reserve lands in Australia
The preservation of all sacred sites in Australia
Ownership of areas in major cities, including the mining rights
Compensation for lands that were not able to be returned starting with $6 billion and including a percentage of the gross national income every year.
A visit from Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam to discuss the five-point plan was seen by activists as a great success in gaining recognition for their cause and having their ideas heard by those in positions of power.
Complete rights to the Northern Territory as a state within Australia and the installation of a primarily Aboriginal State Parliament. These rights would include all mining rights to the land
Ownership and mining rights of all other Aboriginal reserve lands in Australia
The preservation of all sacred sites in Australia
Ownership of areas in major cities, including the mining rights
Compensation for lands that were not able to be returned starting with $6 billion and including a percentage of the gross national income every year.
A visit from Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam to discuss the five-point plan was seen by activists as a great success in gaining recognition for their cause and having their ideas heard by those in positions of power.
Between 1972 and 1992 the embassy was established at a succession of places across Canberra, including the site of the current Australian Parliament House.
Between 1972 and 1992 the embassy was established at a succession of places across Canberra, including the site of the current Australian Parliament House.
In 1992 on the 20th anniversary of the original protests, the embassy was permanently re-established on its original site on the lawns outside Old Parliament House. Protesters once more sought to raise the profile of Indigenous issues, fearing that those in power were again forgetting Indigenous Australians.
In 1995 the embassy itself was listed on the Register of the National Estate; the only site on therRegister noted as important due to its political significance to Indigenous Australians.
Since this permanent re-establishment, protests have been held at the embassy for a range of reasons, including against Aboriginal deaths in custody, the Howard government’s Northern Territory Intervention in 2007, and cuts to essential Indigenous services .
The embassy is still controversial. Many people have challenged its validity and a number of arson attacks have damaged buildings within the camp.
Infographic.
So after our researching we had to make a infographic with the research we did. So we got in our group and organized the information we got and read through it a couple of times and doing this we had a deeper understanding of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. So after that we work together to do the background and then we made some question then in the actual thing we will answer the question so the questions we have are What is the aboriginal tent embassy, why did people start this, what did society do about it, what was the eventual effect of the efforts and the history. So then we answered the questions and then we printed it and we may had to redo it a lot of times but then we were happy with is and put it up on the wall and we all felt relief. This was the infographic we did.
Public speaking.
Then we made a scripted that summarized watch happen with the aboriginal tent embassy we used a little bit off the infographic and some off our heads, we used a power point to create the presentation we used some of the pictures in the background to add more meaning. We printed out the scripted and put in in pram cards and gave one to everyone. We kept one practicing until we thought we are ready. First we are watching the other groups but then it was are turn and I think we did pretty well and we didn’t really mess up. The power point is down bellow.
This is some of my script because some got deleted.
What is the aboriginal tent embassy?
The aboriginal tent embassy is a basically a large protesting for land rights and no racist comments. They just wanted to have approval and to be treated fairly like if they where white skinned and I think this protest is really good.
What was the reason they did it?
The aboriginal people where being discriminated for there skin and also to get their land back because they where here before as and that they should have teach us on the stuff they know.
What did society do about it?
At first it started out as a small thing but eventually it got to large heights and there were actions taken against it. They had a police officer ask kindly for the tents to be taken down, when they refused, 400 policemen walked out behind parliament house forcefully put the tent down.
What was the eventual effect of the aboriginal tent embassy?
More people were on the aboriginal side and trying to help them once they saw that they need help because they are being harassed and some people where agents that and made them feel bad about them self.
Aboriginal tent embassy history.
On the 26th of January 1972 4 men led by Michael Anderson, set up a beach umbrella to protest right in front of parliament house in Canberra.
The badge making prosses.
So after the The presentation we all had to make a badge but we didn’t want to start on paper like the other people did we started on the internet and made it on there but we didn’t know that want we did was a short cut because the rest of the people had to do it on the internet after they did it on the paper and transfer it to the internet and try to get it the right side and my group has already done that so we started to print and there where a lot of problems but then we got it the right side and we were almost done. So we had to print one each for my team mates and some to sell at the market. So we made our badges with a badge machine. So after making the badges are group made a blurb that when a person buys it they will see what it is about and sad the dark past that has happened.
Market.
The market for the badge that we made was not that successful because only a few people brought the badge but it was a very fun prosses and at the market there where a lot of people trying to sell there products and buy them. I thought are badge was really good and before I started researching because we didn’t really get to sell a lot but we did really well.