Special Tribute to The Aboriginal Embassy
January - July 1972


Founders of the Aboriginal Embassy - Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Michael Anderson and Tony Coorey

Click here to see 3 albums of of Aboriginal Embassy pix

Special New Index of Aboriginal Embassy Images!!
Recently re-discovered index of rare photographs of Aboriginal Embassy in action in early 1972. Images include a visit by conservative Liberal MP Neville Bonner trying unsuccessfully to induce Embassy members to end the protest, and Embassy staff educating the public and relaxing in private. Numerous famous Embassy identities are to be seen in this index.

Click here to see this historic index from the Bruce McGuinness Collection.

Related reading on the Aboriginal Embassy

* Black Power in Redfern 1968 - 1972 by Gary Foley 2002
* Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore? by Coral Dow, Social Policy Group, 4 April 2000
* "Power sought to move Embassy"
* "Aborigines ask Queen to help the Embassy"
* "Tent Embassy Falls - But Victory Claimed"
* "Bolt-cutters free chained women"
* "The Black Australians" by John Newfong 1972
* "Blacks to boycott court cases"
* Headlines from the Black Power Era

1970s index