"There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one's native land." - Euripides 431 B.C.
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The Aboriginal Embassy January - July 1972Index 3 click on pic for enlargement
Embassy Demo July 1972	Embassy Demo July 1972	Embassy Demo July 1972
United We Stand	Supporters	Sandra McGuinness
Black Theatre performance	Black Theatre performance	Black Theatre performance
The cops move in	The tents are re-erected	The Embassy Lives!
Cop confusion	Indigenous Defiance	Flo Burns Grabbed
Are the cops giving up?	The Cops Give Up!	Victory!
Related reading on the Aboriginal Embassy Index of Newspaper articles about the Aboriginal Embassy Index of Government documents related to the Aboriginal Embassy Black Power in Redfern 1968 - 1972 by Gary Foley 2002 Ningla A-na The film of the Aboriginal Embassy Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore? by Coral Dow, Social Policy Group, 4 April 2000 "Nomadic Resistance: Tent Embassies and Collapsible Architecture - Illegal architecture and protest"
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