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Australian Reconciliation Day 2022: Top Quotes, Images, Posters, Greetings, Images, Messages To Share
In the Australian Capital Territory, Reconciliation Day is a national holiday (ACT). It was first observed in 2018, and it fosters the exchange of culture and tolerance by celebrating Aboriginal Australian culture. In the Australian Capital Territory, Reconciliation Day is a national holiday. In the rest of Australia, this is not a national holiday.
From 2018, Reconciliation Day in the Australian Capital Territory will kick off National Reconciliation Week, a seven-day statewide commemoration that began in 1996. Reconciliation Week “aims to give individuals across Australia the time to concentrate on reconciliation among non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians,” according to Reconciliation Australian, the organisation that organises the event.
Australian Reconciliation Day: History
On July 27, 1967, over 90% of Australians held a vote to repeal articles from the charter of rights that prejudiced against Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines. A stipulation denying Aboriginal Australians citizenship rights because they would not be included in the survey was one of them.
In the late 1950s, civil rights action by non-Indigenous and Indigenous people grew in response to this unfairness, to bring the country’s ethnic groupings closer together. The 1967 referendum resulted in a decisive win for civil rights in Australia, which is commemorated every year on Reconciliation Day in the National Reconciliation Week and Australian Capital Territory across the country.