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March 4, 2008

CHARLIE PERKINS AND THE FREEDOM RIDERS

One event that was instrumental in making the Australian public aware of the discrimination that continued against Aborigines in the 1960s was the 1965 Freedom Ride.

During the 1960s groups of American college students organised bus trips around the USA to expose the continuing discrimination against African Americans. They wanted to help African Americans to achieve the freedom to be treated the same as white Americans. These tips were called “Freedom Rides.”

In Australia in February 1965 a group of 31 Sydney University students and one journalist, under the banner “The Student action for aborigines Council” departed on a bus journey through north-western NSW. The purpose of trip was to highlight discrimination suffered by Indigenous Australians. The group was led by Charles Perkins and Jim Spiegelman and supported by the Reverend Ted Noffs of the Wayside Chapel in Sydney.

Jim Spiegelman became the chief Justice on NSW (the most senior judge) in May 1998.

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Give 5 examples of the “colour bar” Freedom Rides found. when your a diffrent colour and you are not aloud to do specific things/

Answer True or False to these questions

The Walgett RSL Club barred indigenous people form membership. True

Some Walgett citizens welcomed the Freedom Riders with flowers False

In Moree Freedom riders protested outside the swimming pool True

As a result all Aboriginal children were allowed to swim in the pool at any time. True

Moree resident pelted the Freedom riders with eggs and fruit when they returned True

The Freedom Riders used Civil Disobedience tactics such as blocking the entrance to the pool in Moree. True

Use the words in the box to fill in the gaps in the passage below:

Charles Perkins was born in Arlturga in 1936. His mother Hetti was from the Arrente people near Alex Springs. Her father was a .His father was a kangaroo hunter who also has indigenous family on his mother’s side. From 1945 to 1952 Perkins continued his earlier at an Anglican school as a resident. Charles Perkins school years were full of conflict and at age 16 he was forced to leave school and obtained an apprenticeship as a at the British Tube Mills. He was often referred to there as a boong” ” south Australian and was against in other ways. Although Perkins felt that his schooling provided him with discipline and independence, it also robbed him of a sense of identity and community.Mixing in the school’s Perkins noted that white girls would not dance with him and that white males taunted him. He gained some acceptance through his exceptional skills, but felt that the acceptance came from ethnic soccer clubs. In 1957 and 58 he played for and Manchester United in England. When he returned to Australia he played for the Adelaide Croatia team.In 1961 he became vice-president of the and began a campaign of public speaking for equal citizenship rights for Indigenous Australians and worked with Don Dunstan to change the Aborigines Act.After entering university andmeeting Black activists like , he developed more assertive strategies such as the Freedom Rides.Charles Perkins worked with every Prime minister since Harold Holt and worked tirelessly for Aboriginal rights until his death in 2000 from kidneys failure.Bottom of Form

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February 27, 2008

An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament

http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/H/HarpurCharles/verse/poems/motherslament.html

STILL farther would I fly, my child,
To make thee safer yet,
From the unsparing white man,
With his dread hand murder-wet!
I’ll bear thee on as I have borne
With stealthy steps wind-fleet,
But the dark night shrouds the forest,
And thorns are in my feet.

O moan not! I would give this braid—
Thy father’s gift to me—
But for a single palmful
Of water now for thee.

Ah! Spring not to his name—no more
To glad us may he come!
He is smouldering into ashes
Beneath the blasted gum!
All charred and blasted by the fire
The white man kindled there,
And fed with our slaughtered kindred
Till heaven-high went its glare!

O moan not! I would give this braid—
Thy father’s gift to me—
For but a single palmful
Of water now for thee.

And but for thee, I would their fire
Had eaten me as fast!
Hark! Hark! I hear his death-cry
Yet lengthening up the blast!
But no—when that we should fly,
On the roaring pyre flung bleeding—
I saw thy father die!

O moan not! I would give this braid—
Thy father’s gift to me—
For but a single palmful
Of water now for thee.

No more shall his loud tomahawk
Be plied to win our cheer,
Or the shining fish-pools darken
Beneath his shadowing spear;
The fading tracks of his fleet foot
Shall guide not as before,
And the mountain-spirits mimic
His hunting call no more!

O moan not! I would give this braid—
Thy father’s gift to me—
For but a single palmful Of water now for thee.

Meaning of each paragraph.

First paragragh means, the mother is talking about how she escaped from the murdereres. And what condition she was in when escaping.

Second paragraph is saying that after the escaped they needed water to survive.

Third paragraph is sayin ,That someone from her tribe has been burnt to ashes and is a bad experience for someone to experience.

Fourth paragragh is saying the same as paragraph 2.

fifth paragraph is saying, she saw a lot of people from her family die such as her father.

Sixth paragraph is the ame as paragraph 2.

seventh paragraph is saying that there not going to hear there tribe hunters shout noone because they have all been slaughter.

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