Tent Embassy
This year marks 50 years since Aboriginal activists decided enough was enough and made a stand on the lawns opposite federal Parliament House.
Without power-sharing, compensation and the return of land, both native title and the Uluru Statement from the Heart fail Aboriginal people, veteran artist and activist Richard Bell says.
Back on January 26, 1972 when Euahlayi man (Ghillar) Michael Anderson was just 20-years-old, he arrived in Canberra to bring the Aboriginal people's fight for land rights to those making the laws.
In the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy one of the men involved in the early days of the protest say those fighting for a better future for Aboriginal pe...
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