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?
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
6. From Little Things Big Things Grow
◻ Audio Task!
1. Watch the following Clip – From Little Things Big Things Grow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ndC07C2qw
2. Using worksheet provided on Canvas and images – fill in text
boxes around the lyrics
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)
◻ You decide…..
⬜ Which of the above events was the most significant for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people gaining civil rights?
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
the as an INDIVIDUAL task
⬜ 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:
1. State one event that affected ATSI access to land
2. State 2 reasons why this event was significant for ATSI civil
rights
