"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 1 click on pic for enlargement
Hapless 1972 PM Billy McMahon	Founders Blliy & Bertie @ Embassy	The Aboriginal Embassy
Chicka Dixon	Pat O'Shane & Paul Coe	Tony Coorey (right)
Gary Foley	Sam Watson, Don Brady & Denis Walker	Gary Williams
Lyn Thompson (Craigie)	Mum Shirl Smith	Will Illohea
Bobbi Sykes	Embassy staff	John Newfong
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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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