Australian Indigenous Rights

1.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What was the outcome of the 1967 Referendum to amend the Australian Constitution?

Indigenous Australians were granted the right to vote

Indigenous Australians were included in the census

Indigenous Australians were recognised by the United Nations Human Rights Council

All of the above

2.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What was the actual policy name of the Stolen Generation that was given in Victoria?

The Aboriginal Reconciliation Bill

The Aboriginal Protection Act

The Indigenous Procreation Initiative

The Aboriginal Prosperity Initiative

3.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What year did the Stolen Generation begin in Australia?

1914

1869

1911

Trick question - the Stolen Generation was the result of various policies put forward by various governments at different times. There is no one, single date.

4.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Why did the Australian State Governments want to enact the Aboriginal Protection Act?

To protect British settlers from Aboriginal violence.

To 'breed out' the black colour of the Indigenous Peoples and eradicate the aboriginal 'race'.

To deny aboriginal people the rights and freedoms of white Australians.

Because the Federal Government had not been formed yet and the states wanted total control.

5.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What is a referendum?

A big word

A direct vote by citizens of an electorate on a change to the constitution

A change to the constitution

A vote on a change to the constitution by non-citizens

6.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What is the term for giving up your own minority culture and adopting the culture of the majority?

Acculturation

Assimilation

Primogeniture

Heredity

7.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What is the Stolen Generation?

A generation of people who moved out of the country

A generation that survived on stealing from Europeans

A generation of Indigenous Australians that were taken and raised by white people

A generation of babies that disappeared mysteriously, likely stolen and raised by kangaroos and dingos

8.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Why did the government take mixed race Aboriginal children from their families?

Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider white population.

Government thought these children could be better used as servants.

Government thought their parents could not look after them

Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider black population.

9.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What happened to Aboriginal people on reserves and missions?

They were taught to reject their European ways of life

They were injected with smallpox

They were taught to reject their Aboriginality and had to convert to Christianity

They were taught to speak English and how to fight

10.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Which of the following details the affect of British settlement towards to Australia's Aboriginals?

Loss of home and traditional hunting grounds

Loss of culture

Death through smallpox and other diseases

All of the above

11.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

In 1967, the Australian Constitution was amended so that the Aborigines

were allowed to assimilate with the British.

were allowed to elect their own leaders.

were counted with the rest of the Australian population.

were allowed to reclaim their native land.

12.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

In 1948, which document was created to explain what rights were given to all humans?

Declaration of Independence

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

13.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Which international peacekeeping organization created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

The United Nations

The World Health Organization

NATO

The Organization of American States

14.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What major world conflict prompted the need for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the United Nations itself?

World War I

World War II

The Cold War

The Vietnam War

15.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

How many articles represent the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

10

12

30

21

16.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What are human rights?

Rights only the richest are entitled to.

Rights that all people have simply because they are human.

A responsibility that people have as humans.

Rights that only children have.

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