Senior Library Books
Freedom Ride
KooriWeb. (2014, January 21). 1965 Freedom Ride. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0KMWmpmPE
Freedom Ride - Charles Perkins
- Freedom Ride organiser Charles Perkins ’powerful because he was moderate’, says veteran journalist. (n.d.). ABC Premium News. Retrieved from Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus.Charles Perkins, who led the Freedom Ride in New South Wales 50 years ago this week, was a powerful and often uncompromising personality who became the first Aboriginal person to not only complete tertiary education, but to head a Federal Government department.
Charles Perkins
Charles Perkins. Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1984. Held key roles on the boards of Aboriginal arts, sport and media organisations. As well he was a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Commission (ATSIC) and of the Arrente Council of Central Australia.
- National Australia Museum. (2014). Charles Perkins. Retrieved from http://www.nma.gov.au/indigenous/people/pagination/charles_perkinsCharles Perkins was born in Alice Springs; his mother was Arrente and his father Kalkadoon. He was removed from the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Aboriginal Reserve when he was 10 and educated at St Francis House, a school established by Father Percy Smith in Adelaide to educate Aboriginal boys.
Aboriginal Embassy
SBS The Feed. (2017, November 17). Aboriginal Embassy. [Video file.] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ISAROn9Er4
The Aboriginal tent embassy opposite Parliament House has stood for 42 years to represent the fight for political rights for our first people. Who is still there?
Tent Embassy
- Leslie, T. (2012, January 27). The history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-27/the-history-of-the-aboriginal-tent-embassy/3796630The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was founded on Australia Day in 1972 to protest the decision by the McMahon Liberal government to reject a proposal for Aboriginal Land rights.
- Korff, Jen. (2017, August 12). History: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra. Creative Spirits. Retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/aboriginal-tent-embassy-canberra#ixzz5Up7KA0FjIn the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the US, Aboriginal people were politically very active. In Sydney, Australia’s first Aboriginal legal and medical services were founded. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they lived on since millennia.