Racism
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized. The belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
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The Freedom Ride
The Freedom Ride of 1965 was a significant event in the history of civil rights for Indigenous Australians.
Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement, in 1964 students from the University of Sydney formed a group called the Student Action for Aborigines, led by Charles Perkins (the first Indigenous Australian to graduate tertiary education) among others, and travelled into New South Wales country towns on what some of them considered a fact-finding mission. What they encountered was de facto segregation; the students protested, picketed, and faced violence, raising the issue of Indigenous rights. They commonly stood protesting for hours at segregated areas such as pools, parks and pubs which raised a mixed reception in the country towns. Australia overwhelmingly passed a 1967 referendum removing discriminatory sections from the Australian Constitution and enabling the federal government to take direct action in Aboriginal affairs.
Hyllus Maris
Activism and community work
In 1970 Maris, along with her mother and sister, was one of the founders of the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women in Melbourne. She worked for the Council as a liaison officer and in 1973 helped to set up the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in Fitzroy. She helped to establish similar services in Queensland and chaired the Victorian Council for Aboriginal Culture.[3]
She travelled to London in 1977 to study social policy and community development with sociologist Richard Hauser, having won a commonwealth scholarship, before returning to Melbourne where she continued her community work.[5]
She was later chair of the Green Hills Foundation, which in 1983 helped to establish Worawa Aboriginal College, the first registered independent Aboriginal school in Victoria.
Meyne Wyatt A powerful thought provoking performance
Meyne Wyatt is an Australian actor. Wyatt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2010 and appeared in several theatre productions around the country. For his performance in Silent Disco, Wyatt was named Best Newcomer at the 2011 Sydney Theatre Awards
