Protest Land Rights and Riots female author and Honorary Research Associate at

and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Historical Studies

Gary Osmond

Katarapko Creek

Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s is the previously untold story of how they set about fulfilling their dreams

Protest Land Rights and Riots female author and Honorary Research Associate atThe 1970s saw the battle for Aboriginal people's struggles for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were in foment as a consequence of political, economic and major structural change, social fragmentation and unparalleled unemployment. The ensuing so called riots, protests and law and order campaigns captured much of the tense relations that existed between Indigenous people, the police