Protest
Establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 1972
A pan-Aboriginal protest embassy was established to assert unceded sovereignty.
What happened
In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established to assert unceded sovereignty.[1]
Sources for this page
Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.
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Claim: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established in 1972 outside Australia's Parliament House, using the term "embassy" to assert that Aboriginal people had never ceded sovereignty nor engaged in any treaty process with the Crown, following a prime ministerial speech dismissing Aboriginal land-rights claims and reaffirming an assimilation policy.
- Aboriginal Tent Embassy (Wikipedia) link, 1972 founding and sovereignty assertion section. Source record