The document discusses changes to rights and freedoms in Australia over the past 200 years: - Indigenous Australians have occupied the land for over 60,000 years and view the land as the core of their spirituality and culture, not just something to own. - Removing Indigenous people from the lands they know and grew up on has significant negative effects, undermining their kinship, community identity, and language groups which are tied to different lands. - Beginning in the 1970s, the Indigenous land rights movement advocated for recognition of Indigenous land ownership and native title, culminating in legal victories like the Native Title Act of 1993 and the Mabo decision, which recognized native title.

1. CHANGING RIGHTS AND
FREEDOMS
Topic Two

2. Starter: Sentence Challenge
◻ Dreaming and the land
Indigenous people have occupied Australia for at least 60 000 years and have evolved with the land -
changing it and changing with it. The land was not just soil or rocks or minerals, but a whole
environment that sustains and is sustained by people and culture.
For Indigenous Australians the land is the core of all spirituality and this relationship has been deeply
misunderstood over the past 200 years or so. This relationship is central to all issues that are
important to Indigenous people today.
◻ Effects
The land underpins kinship and community identity.
The land defines community groups and language groups.
Language groups are an expression of community identity.
Aboriginal people do not own the land they are custodians of it.
◻ (from: http://www.workingwithindigenousaustralians.info/content/Practice_Implications_3_The_Land.html)
◻ Write a 5 sentence response that answers the following question: What effect
does removing ATSI people from the land they know and grown up on have on
them?

3. The Big Idea
HOW MOVEMENTS CAN
LEAD TO CHANGE
AROUND THE WORLD

4. The Land Rights Movement
Learning Goal
◻ To understand the land rights movement for ATSI people
◻ To explain the importance of the Mabo decision for the civil
rights of ATSI peoples
Success Criteria
1. I can outline movement for land rights for ATSI people
2. I can explain the significance of the Mabo decision

5. Eddie Mabo
◻ Read the following article:
◻ https://www.reconciliation.org.au/wp-
content/uploads/2017/11/mabo-decision_2017.pdf
◻ Write 5 or
◻ 7 dot points about Eddie Mabo.

6. Source Questions
◻ Answer Interpret 7.7 Questions 1-2 on Page 53.

7. Research Task 1.
◻ Create a Google Doc entitled “Land Rights and Mabo”
◻ Research the events listed below;
⬜ Wave Hill Walk-off (text p52)
⬜ Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 (text p54)
⬜ Mabo Decision & Native title Act (text p55)
⬜ Wik decision (Text p56)
⬜ Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 (Text p 56)
◻ Extension:
◻ Annotate each of the notes above.

8. Research Task 2.
◻ Research the different events and complete in your Google Doc
◻ Remember the question
⬜ Which of the following events was the most significant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people gaining civil rights
◻ Use the questions below to help direct your research:
⬜ What happened?
⬜ When?
⬜ Where?
⬜ Who campaigned and how (aims and methods)
⬜ Who did it affect (where?)
⬜ Impact or result (What did it change?)
⬜ The significance of the event

9. PEEL Paragraph Writing
⬜ Decide for yourself – which event was most significant? Why? – write brief dot
point notes for yourself
⬜ Now Write a paragraph response to the research question below. You must do
this using the PEEL paragraph scaffold below:
⬜ P = Point
⬜ E = Explain
⬜ E = Examples, Evidence
⬜ L = Link back to the question
⬜ Which of the following events was the most significant for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people gaining civil rights

10. Recap & exit tickets
Success Criteria
1. I can outline movement for land rights for ATSI people
2. I can explain the significance of the Mabo decision.
Exit Ticket: WWW
What went well today?
What could be improved for next time?