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Clip description
Protesters are gathered at the Aboriginal Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra in 1972. Police march on the Embassy, clashing with and arresting the protesters.
Curator’s notes
The protest in this clip remains one of the most successful ever mounted in this country. Showing police marching on the Aboriginal Embassy and clashing with protesters, it brought international attention to Aboriginal people’s struggle for land rights and human rights. This clip appears in many other documentary films and has become more widely seen as a result. It fundamentally changed the way the world saw Australia.
