Protest Land Rights and Riots female author community initiatives have played a

community initiatives have played a vital part in overcoming the immense damage done

Most dramatic was its support for Ernest Gribble's exposure of the 1926 Forrest River massacres which Loos believes set off the current 'history wars'

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

Katarapko Creek

and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Historical Studies

Protest Land Rights and Riots female author community initiatives have played aThe 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