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The Aboriginal Embassy January - July 1972

Index of Newspaper Reports on the Aboriginal Embassy a small sample, in chronological order, of the extraordinary media coverage of the 1972 seminal protest action Researchers may find more items in newspaper libraries by using the dates on these reports as a guide "MPs in a dilemma over Land Rights" Australian - 2nd January 1972 "Editorial: Aborigines a problem" Australian - 3rd January 1972 "Aboriginal panthers plan their own party" Melbourne Herald - 12th January 1972 "PM to turn down plea for native land rights" Age - 14th January 1972 "Panthers group announces its aims" Age - 14th January 1972 "Get ready for the year of the Panthers" Age - 18th January 1972 "Aboriginals set up militant Black Panther movement" Australian - 19th January 1972 "MP criticises land policy" Canberra Times - 25th January 1972 "Aborigines to get special land fund" Australian - 25th January 1972 "Aborigines will be consulted first" Age - 25th January 1972 "Aborigines Land Rights plea is turned down" Australian - 26th January 1972 "You must recognise our claims now - by Kevin Gilbert" Australian - 26th January 1972 "Editorial: A price on our guilt" Australian - 26th January 1972 "New National Policy on Aborigines" Canberra Times - 26th January 1972 "$13m grants to Aborigines" Age - 26th January 1972 "Editorial: Land Rights" Sydney Morning Herald - 26th January 1972 "Editorial: White paper: Black Question" Age - 26th January 1972 "Land for Aborigines - offer by PM" Sydney Morning Herald - 26th January 1972 "'Cynical Exercise' - Aboriginal land policy hit" Canberra Times - 27th January 1972 "A Chance Lost" Canberra Times - 27th January 1972 "3 Aboriginals Set Up Embassy" Sun - 28th January 1972 "Aborigines policy protest" Sydney Morning Herald - 28th January 1972 "Aborigines policy protest" Australian - 28th January 1972 "Aboriginal women gather for conference" Canberra Times - 28th January 1972 "Natives open 'Embassy' of their own" Age - 28th January 1972 "'Disturbing note' in land protest" Age - 29th January 1972 "Howson Hits Black Power Sign" Sydney Morning Herald - 29th January 1972 "Parliament Guarded" Sun-Herald - 30th January 1972 "Black Power loses to a stubborn Evonne" Australian - 31st January 1972 "Aboriginals warn of more violence" Australian - 31st January 1972 "Aboriginal Pastor attacks government" Sydney Morning Herald - 31st January 1972 "Aboriginal women record dissent" Canberra Times - 31st January 1972 "Aboriginal Embassy now seven" Australian - 31st January 1972 "Government accused: Aborigines 'live in creek beds'" Canberra Times - 31st January 1972 "Red face over black embassy" Age - 1st February 1972 "Aboriginal protest gets more support" Canberra Times - 2nd February 1972 "Editorial: Aboriginal problems" Canberra Times - 2nd February 1972 "Lawn Mower Protest" Sydney Morning Herald - 2nd February 1972 "Aborigines to fly flag" Canberra Times - 2nd February 1972 "Tents stay put" Sydney Morning Herald - 4th February 1972 "Aboriginal Embassy asks for $6000million" Age - 7th February 1972 "Black Power salute to Mr Suharto" Canberra Times - 8th February 1972 "Whitlam Pledge on Land Rights" Australian - 9th February 1972 "Whitlam pledge to the Aborigines" Sydney Morning Herald - 9th February 1972 "A visit to the protestors camp" Australian - 9th February 1972 "The grassroots protest" Sydney Morning Herald - 12th February 1972 "Aboriginal protesters hoist flag in Canberra" Sydney Morning Herald - 14th February 1972 "Native group invited to China" Age - 14th February 1972 "Power sought to move Embassy" Canberra Times - 3rd March 1972 "An issue not to be ignored much longer" Canberra Times - 5th March 1972 "Black Embassy's Plans" Age - 27th March 1972 "Tent 'Embassy' aids Aboriginal protest" Melbourne Herald - 21st April 1972 "Government will close the Aboriginal Embassy" Sydney Morning Herald - 12th May 1972 "Aborigines standing firm at the Embassy" Sydney Morning Herald - 16th May 1972 "Help us stay, Natives beg Queen" herald - 7th June 1972 "Tent Embassy Waits for Order to Move" Age - 19th July 1972 "Evict Embassy Plan Attacked" Age - 20th July 1972 "Students ready to aid 'Embassy'" Canberra Times - 20th July 1972 "Aborigines arrested: 'tent embassy' pulled down" Sun - 20th July 1972 "Police Clash with Aborigines" Age - 21st July 1972 "The Storming of the Embassy" Sydney Morning Herald - 21st July 1972 "Aborigines fight to the last tent" Sydney Morning Herald - 21st July 1972 "Aborigines ask Queen to help the Embassy" "9 hurt as Embassy is closed" Age 21st July 1972 "An Embassy of their own" Age Editorial 21st July 1972 "A new symbol goes; a new symbol" Age 21st July 1972 "Police hit, kicked, bitten" Telegraph 21st July 1972 "Blacks Battle Police" Daily Telegraph 21st July 1972 "Eight Arrested as Police Tear Down Embassy" Australian - 21st July 1972 "Black Guerilla Protest Warning" Courier Mail - 21st July 1972 "Aftermath of Embassy Fracas" Canberra News - 21st July 1972 "Criticism Follows 'Embassy' Action" Canberra Times - 21st July 1972 "Editorial: A turning point" Canberra Times - 21st July 1972 "Embassy Pulled Down" Daily Telegraph - 21st July 1972 "Labor Attack on Embassy Removal" Financial Review - 21st July 1972 "Aborigines Fight To The Last Tent" Sydney Morning Herald - 21st July 1972 "Aborigines Arrested - 'Embassy Pulled Down" Sydney Sun 21st July 1972 "Black Power Guerrilla War is 'On The Way'" Melbourne Sun 21st july 1972 "ACT clash was a warning to all'" Melbourne Herald 21st july 1972 "Editorial: A Turning Point'" Canberra Times 21st july 1972 "Criticism follows 'Embassy' action'" Canberra Times 21st july 1972 "Aboriginals sue for tent embassy rights" Australian 22nd july 1972 "Aborigine's Embasy Down But their Flag Flying High" Sun - 22nd July 1972 "Aborigines to try to re-open Embassy" Canberra Times 22nd july 1972 "Black Panther group heads for Canberra" Age 22nd july 1972 "Clashes again as police pull down rebuilt 'embassy" Australian 24th july 1972 "New tent embassy sparks a wild brawl" Age 24th july 1972 "Aborigines Embassy falls Again" Sydney Morning Herald - 24th July 1972 "Natives see Hunt about the Embassy" Age - 27th July 1972 "Aboriginal Embassy:PM seeks a way out" Age - 28th July 1972 "Government Fears Riots at Aboriginal Demonstration" Age - 29th July 1972 "Hunt offers to meet Aborigines" Canberra Times - 29th July 1972 "A matter of black and white" The Bulletin - 29th July 1972 "Two Ministers to see Aborigines" Sydney Morning Herald - 29th July 1972 "Tent Embassy Falls - But Victory Claimed" Australian - 31st July 1972 "Native Embassy Pulled Down Again" Age - 31st July 1972 "The Rise and Fall of the Aboriginal Embassy" Age - 31st July 1972 "Black Moral Victory in Canberra" Tribune - 1st August 1972 "Aboriginal leaders want "Embassy" back" Australian - 12th August 1972 "Embassy removal declared Illegal" Sydney Morning Herald - 13th September 1972 "Protestors back on the job" Australian - 13th September 1972 "Tent embassy back" dailt Telegraph - 13th September 1972 "Rush to repair Canberra laws: confusion closes most law courts" Sydney Morning Herald - 14th September 1972 "Blacks to boycott court cases" Tribune - 26th September 1972 "The Black Australians" by John Newfong 1972

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