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Political parties formed by unions to champion their interests in Parliament.

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A 1992 landmark Australian High Court case led by Aboriginal activist Eddie Mabo, which was one of the first steps towards native title entitlements for indigenous Australians.

In August 1890, a union struggle over better pay and working conditions brought Melbourne to a standstill when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate.

Stranded on a deserted island, often as a form of punishment.

A mason was originally a worker who builds in brick or stone. More recently a 'mason' can also refer to a member of a Masonic Lodge.

A 19^th century Melbourne organisation of masons. As well as promoting workers′ rights and being an early prototype of the union movement, Masonic lodges were also secret societies with restricted membership.

A military court operating outside the general legal system

A number of Victorian missions, reserves and stations were set up in the late 19^th century by the Aboriginal Welfare Board to house indigenous people on segregated areas of land.

Another term for half-caste aboriginals or others of mixed races.

A name that a person is known by; a nickname.

A sad poem about someone who has died

The curved board or metal plate in a farmer’s plough that turns piles of dirt out of the ground.

Murris are a group of Aboriginal people from northern NSW and Queensland. The term is sometimes used to descibe Aboriginals in general in some parts of Australia.

A highly infectious viral disease deliberately introduced into Australia to control the rabbit population.

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An Australian species of fern that is treated, then ground into flour, made into caskes and eaten by Aborigines.

Native Title describes the rights of indigenous people according to r their traditional laws and custom and in particular their relationship with and right to ancestral land.

Medical services offered in hospitals which take care of ill or newborn infants

The Newport Rising was a large-scale British uprising of Chartist workers, including many coal miners, in a battle for equal rights and better working conditions. Newport, where the events took place, is a town in South Wales in the United Kingdom.

An index of articles which have appearedin a newspaper over a period of time.

Nouns are naming words that usually have words like 'a' or 'the' in front of them.  They refer to people, places, objects and ideas.

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Free from personal feelings or bias

The act of leaving something out. Deliberate omission can be a form of bias.

A personal view or judgement which may or may not be based on factual information.

History based on interviews and recordings with people.

A supervisor who oversees something; also a farm manager.

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Any area of sea ice that isn't attached to the shoreline or another land mass.

A special type of prison, designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, that allows a person to monitor all prisoners without being seen.

Speech or writing that tries to influence and persuade its audience of a particular point of view.

A popular 19^th century 'science' which believed the bumps on people's heads could be used to descibe their personality.

Deliberately using someone else's ideas without their permission or acknowledging the source.

Something which happens after a person's death.

When people are forced to pay money to criminals who threaten them with violence