History: Year 10 Modern History

TROVE provides Digitised Australian newspapers from 1803 - 1954

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world.

This site has a unit on Indigenous Civil Rights in Australia. Username: MFAC Password: Library

Radio National article about protest movements in Australia and overseas

Whitlam Institute, provides details about a number of achievements of the Gough Whitlam while he was in power.

A selection of primary and secondary sources prepared by the National Museum of Australia on the Civil Rights movement in Australia.

ABC site - video footage detailing the history of Indigenous Rights in Australia

ABC News

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stories

An article written by Jim Spigelman (member of the Freedom Ride) about reactions to the SAFA tour.

ABC site provide a video overviewing the environment movement 1970-1980

Provides a brief outline of the environmental activism that has happened in Australia from 1969 to 1998.

The Conversation article

Defining moments in history - National Museum Australia

This article contains two relevant quotes, one from the Chief Justice and one from Prime Minister Hawke.

song by Goanna in response to the Franklin River protest.

accessed from Trove, article from 2 July 1983, includes reactions of people in Queenstown after the High Court decision.

Information provided by Fitroy Legal Centre

National Museum of Australia defining moment in Australian history. 1972: Conciliation and Arbitration Commission grants equal pay for men and women

ABC Broadcast from November 1966

Timeline of Australia's equal pay movement, provided by Equal Pay Day organisation.

ABC News article, 2019

Article by Joyce Stevens, International Women's Day website

ABC Education site: footage from 1965 showing women chaining themselves to the bar as a protest against the ban on women in the public bar.

ABC site - short video overviewing the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia

ABC broadcast, showing how lives changed and who was opposed to its introduction.

National Museum of Australia article on the introduction of the Pill in Australia.

Information provided by Australian Bureau of Statistics on use of contraception and fertility rates across different years.

Sydney Morning Herald article by Anne Summers - 2010.

1970 This Day Tonight broadcast

Article written by Susan Magarey about the women's liberation movement in Australia

This is an e-book written by Susan Margarey from the University of Adelaide History Department.

ABC News

University of Canberra, Alumni stories

National Museum of Australia document detailing the role of women and equality in Australia. includes a number of primary sources.

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The National Archives provides a number of primary sources which relate to Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Use the Browse by topic - Search: War and Peace, then Vietnam War

National Museum of Australia, defining moments in Australian history. 1970: Moratoriums to protest against Australian involvement in Vietnam War

ABC News August 2016

Department of Veteran Affairs site, details some of the opposition to the Vietnam War including images of posters.

This site covers a lot of different areas involved in this topic, including public opinion and conscription.

Range of information about Australia and the Vietnam War, including public reactions to our involvement. Department of Veteran Affairs

Inside story article, April 2020

Detailed document about the anti-nuclear movement in Australia. At the end of the document there is a list of protests that have occurred in Australia.

Provides an overview of the Australian Nuclear Disarmament Movement including a conclusion which provides some outcomes of the movement.

Museum Victoria collection

Radio National script from 2015

Solidarity.net article. Provides details about the 1970's movement including quotes from someone there.

ABC article looking back on Camp Concern, set up as a protest to uranium mining in Kakadu

Historic footage of Lang Handcock, WA mining magnate talking about uranium mining.

Parliamentary paper