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1990 - North West - view

Dancers transform the Great Hall at The University of Newcastle into a corroboree ground. The one-hour performance moved the audience of 2,500 people

1992 - West - view

Link Up moves

1992 - South Coastal - view

Survival Day, originating in the 1988 march

1992 - North West - view

honorary doctorate from Newcastle University in recognition of his scholarship in traditional law

1992 - North West - view

The High Court of Australia changes the nation’s common law when it brought down its decision in Mabo

1993 - North Coastal - view

Establishment of Cooee Classic surf contests from Black Rock to Manly by Virginia Gow and Caroline Glass-Pattison, Lois Birk and others.

1993 - North West - view

World Indigenous Peoples’ Corroboree, Newcastle

1994 - North West - view

The founding motivation is to reduce the suffering of Aboriginal people at the hands of drugs and alcohol. Most especially, it seeks to get men out of the criminal justice system and into treatment for their addictions

1995 - North West - view

Local production of "Bran Nue Dae" at the Community Arts Centre

1995 - North West - view

Aboriginal programs to engage and connect youth, provide cultural training and work skills, improve education outcomes and turn them into jobs

1996 - North West - view

Wik Decision

1996 - North West - view

”Somewhere in the Darkness” is written in Newcastle area by playwright Ray and staged at Sydney Theatre Company

1997 - North West - view

Belvoir St Theatre and SOCOG production of “Black Mary” at the Wilson St Carriage works in Redfern

1997 - North West - view

The monument to “The Lost Tribes of the Hawkesbury” is forgotten for decades after it is unveiled in 1952 and surrounded by blackberries

1997 - North West - view

Newcastle City Bi-Centenary. Its foreshore commemorative activities focus on Reconciliation

1997 - North West - view

Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families

1997 - Central - view

Native Title Claim

1998 - North West - view

The Council of the City of Newcastle acknowledges that Awabakal and Worimi are the first peoples of this council area, and are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of continuing dispossession

1998 - North West - view

Newcastle Council, in negotiation with Indigenous peoples, also commits itself to further reconciliation between Indigenous and other communities by working for a treaty and/or other agreements of reconciliation

1998 - North West - view

20,000 people trace and can claim descent from the Darug