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Aboriginal Tent Embassy - Canberra, January 26th “We will not leave till the justice, at long last, is done.”

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tent embassyBy Gerry Georgatos

On the midnight morning of January 27, 1972, at shy of 1am a beach umbrella as a 'tent' was planted on a lawn in front of Parliament House in Canberra, and as dawn broke so did the news go national. History was raised - this was the onset of 'Aboriginal Tent Embassy'.

On January 25, Prime Minister William McMahon announced the government's 'Aboriginal policy' that would not...

 

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