On January 26th 1972 Prime Minister McMahon declared that under his government land rights would never be granted. In the dead of night four young men stuck a beach umbrella into the ground outside parliament house and sat under it. They called it the Aboriginal tent embassy.
On January 26th 1972 Prime Minister McMahon declared that under his government land rights would never be granted. In the dead of night four young men stuck a beach umbrella into the ground outside parliament house and sat under it. They called it the Aboriginal tent embassy.