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History Of The Tent Embassy

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Tent Embassy
In the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the U.S the Aboriginals people were very politically active. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they had lived on since millennia. Land rights were considered the key to economic independence, and land the base to generate resource and employment. The Aborigines were big on stating they wanted land not handouts which most Australian’s assumed they wanted.

Australia Day 1972, four young Aboriginal men erected a beach umbrella on the lawns outside Parliament House in Canberra and put up a sign which read 'Aboriginal Embassy'. Over the following months, supporters of the embassy swelled to 2000. When the police violently dismantled the tents and television

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