"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 1972 Embassy Pics from the Bruce McGuinness Collection Index 1 click on pic for enlargement
A Labor Senator debates	Billy Craigie	Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes
Senator Bonner argues...	...and argues...	...and argues
..and argues.	Sam Watson gives marching orders	Bruce Mac gives parting shot
Another Labor Senator debates	"Diamond Jim" and Chocko Moore	An Embassy meeting
...meeting	...meeting...	Chicka Dixon
The camp site 1	The camp site 2	The camp site 3
Chicka speaks	Geraldine Willisee	Gary Foley
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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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