28 dic 1972 anni - The indigenous Australians’ pursuit of land rights was also assisted when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam set up the Woodward Royal Commission (an official inquiry into what was going on) in 1973. The job of the Commission was to find out how it was possible for the indigenous Australians to be given land rights, when so much of Australia had already been taken from them. The Commission made recommendations about how governments could give land to indigenous Australians.