What year did the Australian government grant the Gurindji people title to their land in the Northern Territory?
A) 1971
B) 1975
C) 1980
D) 1986
Answer: B) 1975
Which legislation recognized the rights of Indigenous Australians to claim ownership of land based on traditional occupancy?
A) Native Title Act 1993
B) Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
C) Racial Discrimination Act 1975
D) Native Title Amendment Act 1998
Answer: B) Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
The landmark Mabo decision in 1992 recognized the existence of what legal concept?
A) Terra Nullius
B) Native Title
C) Crown Land
D) Freehold Title
Answer: B) Native Title
Which Aboriginal activist led the famous Wave Hill walk-off in 1966, sparking the Indigenous land rights movement?
A) Eddie Mabo
B) Vincent Lingiari
C) Charles Perkins
D) Noel Pearson
Answer: B) Vincent Lingiari
The Native Title Act 1993 was introduced by which Australian Prime Minister?
A) Malcolm Fraser
B) Bob Hawke
C) Paul Keating
D) John Howard
Answer: B) Bob Hawke
The Wik decision in 1996 clarified that pastoral leases do not extinguish what rights?
A) Native Title rights
B) Freehold rights
C) Crown land rights
D) Leasehold rights
Answer: A) Native Title rights
Which Indigenous group successfully claimed land rights over the town of Uluru (Ayers Rock) in 1985?
A) Yolngu people
B) Pitjantjatjara people
C) Arrernte people
D) Warlpiri people
Answer: B) Pitjantjatjara people
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 primarily applies to which Australian state or territory?
A) New South Wales
B) Queensland
C) Victoria
D) Northern Territory
Answer: D) Northern Territory
The Yirrkala bark petitions in the 1960s protested the granting of mining rights on Indigenous land in which region?
A) Cape York
B) Arnhem Land
C) Torres Strait Islands
D) Western Australia
Answer: B) Arnhem Land
The 2007 Northern Territory National Emergency Response, also known as the “Intervention,” led to the temporary suspension of which Act?
A) Racial Discrimination Act 1975
B) Native Title Act 1993
C) Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
D) Native Title Amendment Act 1998
Answer: A) Racial Discrimination Act 1975
Which Aboriginal leader was involved in both the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off and the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972?
A) Eddie Koiki Mabo
B) Neville Bonner
C) Kevin Gilbert
D) Charles Perkins
Answer: D) Charles Perkins
The High Court’s decision in the “Mabo” case overturned the legal doctrine of:
A) Terra Nullius
B) Res nullius
C) Sovereignty
D) Crown Land
Answer: A) Terra Nullius
The Torres Strait Islanders’ land rights were recognized through which legislation?
A) Torres Strait Islanders Act 1939
B) Native Title Act 1993
C) Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
D) Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991
Answer: D) Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991
Which Indigenous group won a historic High Court case in 1992 confirming their native title rights over their traditional lands in Western Australia?
A) Noongar people
B) Yamatji people
C) Ngaanyatjarra people
D) Nyikina people
Answer: A) Noongar people
The Native Title Amendment Act 1998 was introduced by which Australian Prime Minister?
A) John Howard
B) Paul Keating
C) Bob Hawke
D) Kevin Rudd
Answer: A) John Howard
The 1967 referendum in Australia sought to address which issue regarding Indigenous Australians?
A) Citizenship rights
B) Land rights
C) Voting rights
D) Educational rights
Answer: A) Citizenship rights
Which Aboriginal leader and land rights activist was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 1997?
A) Noel Pearson
B) Pat Dodson
C) Galarrwuy Yunupingu
D) Eddie Mabo
Answer: B) Pat Dodson
The Northern Territory Land Rights Act 1976 was the first legislation in Australia to recognize what rights for Indigenous Australians?
A) Citizenship rights
B) Freehold rights
C) Native Title rights
D) Land rights
Answer: D) Land rights
The 1988 Barunga Statement presented to Prime Minister Bob Hawke called for the recognition of what for Indigenous Australians?
A) Voting rights
B) Land rights
C) Treaty rights
D) Citizenship rights
Answer: C) Treaty rights
The concept of “terra nullius” refers to:
A) Land belonging to the British Crown
B) Land owned collectively by Indigenous groups
C) Land belonging to no one
D) Land reserved for Aboriginal people
Answer: C) Land belonging to no one
Which Indigenous leader was instrumental in the establishment of the Aboriginal Legal Service in the 1970s?
A) Charlie Perkins
B) Oodgeroo Noonuccal
C) Eddie Mabo
D) Faith Bandler
Answer: A) Charlie Perkins
The Yolngu people from which region of Australia famously presented the “Bark Petitions” to the Australian Parliament in 1963?
A) Arnhem Land
B) Kimberley Region
C) Cape York
D) Tiwi Islands
Answer: A) Arnhem Land
Which Prime Minister issued a formal apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008?
A) John Howard
B) Tony Abbott
C) Kevin Rudd
D) Julia Gillard
Answer: C) Kevin Rudd
The “Stolen Generations” refers to Aboriginal children who were:
A) Removed from their families by government policies
B) Adopted by non-Indigenous families
C) Sent to missionary schools
D) Born during a period of population growth
Answer: A) Removed from their families by government policies
The landmark 1996 Wik decision concerned the coexistence of Native Title rights and:
A) Mining leases
B) Crown land grants
C) Agricultural tenures
D) Pastoral leases
Answer: D) Pastoral leases
The “Tent Embassy” was established by Aboriginal activists in Canberra in which year?
A) 1967
B) 1972
C) 1988
D) 1992
Answer: B) 1972
The 1986 Kakadu Land Rights Case granted land rights to which Indigenous group in the Northern Territory?
A) Gunditjmara people
B) Larrakia people
C) Mirarr people
D) Ngarluma people
Answer: C) Mirarr people
Which Aboriginal activist and leader was the plaintiff in the landmark High Court case known as the “Mabo” case?
A) Vincent Lingiari
B) Noel Pearson
C) Eddie Mabo
D) Charles Perkins
Answer: C) Eddie Mabo
The “Bringing Them Home” report published in 1997 addressed the issue of:
A) Native Title rights
B) Aboriginal land rights
C) Stolen Generations
D) Indigenous health
Answer: C) Stolen Generations
Which Aboriginal community in Western Australia gained native title rights over their land in a significant 2006 Federal Court decision?
A) Yindjibarndi people
B) Gija people
C) Pintupi people
D) Warlpiri people
Answer: A) Yindjibarndi people
The 1975 Racial Discrimination Act provided for the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race in which areas?
A) Employment and housing
B) Education and healthcare
C) Citizenship and voting rights
D) Land ownership and title
Answer: A) Employment and housing
The 1997 “Wik” High Court decision ruled that Native Title could coexist with certain:
A) Freehold land titles
B) Pastoral leases
C) Crown land reserves
D) Mining rights
Answer: B) Pastoral leases
Which Indigenous leader co-founded the National Aboriginal Conference and was Australia’s first Indigenous federal parliamentarian?
A) Charlie Perkins
B) Neville Bonner
C) Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D) Kevin Gilbert
Answer: B) Neville Bonner
The “10-Point Plan” proposed by Prime Minister John Howard in 1997 sought to amend which Act regarding Native Title rights?
A) Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
B) Racial Discrimination Act 1975
C) Native Title Act 1993
D) Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991
Answer: C) Native Title Act 1993
The “Redfern Park Speech” delivered by Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1992 addressed issues related to:
A) Land rights
B) Stolen Generations
C) Native Title
D) Reconciliation
Answer: D) Reconciliation
Which Indigenous activist and artist was a founding member of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
A) Charles Perkins
B) Kevin Gilbert
C) Eddie Mabo
D) Gary Foley
Answer: D) Gary Foley
The “Waves of Resistance” campaign in the 1930s aimed to protect Indigenous Australians’ rights in which region?
A) Arnhem Land
B) Torres Strait Islands
C) Cape York
D) Western Australia
Answer: B) Torres
