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On January 26 1938, while many Australians celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet, a group of Aboriginal men and women gathered at Australia Hall in Sydney.

In 1965, a group of students from the University of Sydney drew national and international attention to the appalling living conditions of Aboriginal people and the racism that was rife in New South Wales country towns.

While many people think that the Referendum gave Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples the right to vote, this wasn’t the case.

William Ferguson founded the Aboriginal Progressive Association and led protests at the 1938 National Day of Mourning.

On 12 October 1997, Australia awoke to the biggest art petition the nation had ever seen.

These images show a series of protests carried out in 1965 and 1966 by supporters for a referendum to alter the constitution.