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SA Firsts - Timeline for South Australian firsts
Democracy and human rights in the 20th century
1910
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The government of J. Verran is the first complete Labor government in the world. |
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1966
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The Aboriginal Affairs Act repeals many regulations that restricted the civil liberties of Aboriginal people, including their right to mix with non-Aboriginal people. |
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1966
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Prohibition of Discrimination Act prohibited discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, or country of origin. |
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1966
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The Aboriginal Lands Trust is set up to hold lands acquired for Aboriginal people. |
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1975
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The Sex Discrimination Act is passed, making discrimination on the grounds of gender, marital status, or sexuality unlawful in the provision of goods, services, employment, education, and accommodation. |
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1975
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An Equal Opportunity Office for the Public Service is created.
Parliament decriminalises homosexual acts between consenting adults in private. |
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1975
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The Family Relationships Act abolishes the legal consequences of illegitimacy. |
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1976
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The Racial Discrimination Act makes discrimination on the grounds of race unlawful. |
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1976
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Rape in marriage is made a criminal offence. |
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1976
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The Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act gives the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjarra peoples inalienable freehold title over 100,000 km of their land. |
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1991
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South Australia becomes the first Australian State to make discrimination based on age unlawful. |
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