People and Power – Women’s History Assessment By Abby Matthews: 3D Gallery

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Picture 1: A picture of Faith Bandler

Background information

Faith Bandler is a descendant of South Sea Islands.
When she was 13 her father was kidnapped from theisland of Ambrym and brought to Australia to
work as an unpaid labourer in the Queensland cane fields. During the 1950s, Faith became involved in the peace
movement, and in 1956 she was instrumental in setting up the Australian
Aboriginal Fellowship. Faith Bandler was also a fellow member of the Federal
Council for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders becoming the director of
its referendum campaign in 1967.

Picture 2: A picture of Woman running for Parliament

How Australian Women were treated through 1903-1960

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Back in the days
everyone new that in Australia women weren’t allowed to run for parliament, but
after federation Australia passed through an act to allow women to both vote and stand in the
1903 federal election. Actually, did you know that Australia was the first
place to allow women to run for parliament. But this situation was not as good
for indigenous women because they weren’t given the vote until much later in
1962

Picture 3: A picture of Emmeline Pankhurst

How Australian Women were treated through 1903-1960

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Now
you might be thinking what women’s history would be like without mention of the
Suffragettes. Emmeline Pankhurst was the main player of this. She found the
Women's Social and Political Union in the UK which was used to push for the
right for women to be able to vote. These women were pretty tuff back then they
employed some militant tactics, like chaining themselves to railings, setting
fire to mailboxes, smashing windows and even detonating bombs.

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How Australian Women were treated through 1903-1960

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In 1942
when all the men were gone on war the women could finally enter the workforce
in men's roles in unprecedented numbers.
The
Australian Women's Land Army was founded to make the women work on farms where
there were no men left. Thousands of Australian nurses also served overseas.
Some of these women were taken as prisoners of war and 71 were killed while
serving.

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How did Faith Bandler promoted change in 1967?

Some of
the things that Faith Bandler has done in her life is she has worked for Aboriginal
education and housing. She was also found as a member of Women’s Electoral
Lobby and the Australian Republican Movement. But in the 1967 referendum "The hardest part was to get people to think of
the Aboriginal people as people," but Faith Bandler recalled of the vote
that gave the first Australians the status of human beings in the census. She
made phone calls to try and get support from people.

Picture 6: The Australian Constitution

What
change was made in the 1967 Referendum

On 27
May 1967, Australians voted for changes to happen to the
Australian Constitution to improve the services of availability to Indigenous
Australians. The changes focused on two main sections of the Constitution,
which were against Aborigines. The
first section specified all about the federal laws that were designed to
protect all Australians, this didn't apply to Indigenous people. This meant
that Aborigines had different rights in different states and couldn't access
federally funded services like social security and education. Technically this vote was on the Constitution Alteration 1967 Act, which became a law on 10 August 1967 following the results of the referendum.

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How Aboriginals were treated before and after
Faith Bandler’s change in 1967

Before 1967 Aboriginals did not have the same
rights as other Australians under the constitution. Many aspects of their lives
were controlled by the State Government such as their vote in state elections, who they married,
where they could live, whether or not they could drink alcohol and much more.

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How Aboriginals were treated before and after
Faith Bandler’s change in 1967

After Faith
Bandler’s change it allowed the Australian government to change the
constitution so that Aboriginals could be treated the same as other people. One
of the very first things the Government did after they could change the laws
about Aboriginals was to establish the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. The
Council brought lots of Ministers from all states and territories together so that
they could discuss issues related to Aboriginals and recommend actions to the
Australian Government on what to change. So as you can see after Faith
Bandler’s amazing change Aboriginals were then treated the same as other
people.

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People and Power – Women’s History Assessment By Abby Matthews

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Picture 1: A picture of Faith Bandler

Picture 2: A picture of Woman running for Parliament

Picture 3: A picture of Emmeline Pankhurst

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Picture 6: The Australian Constitution

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