These ten change-makers, including Jessie Street and Charles Perkins, are just some of the key Australians who prodded the country to question its thinking on race.
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Non-Indigenous Australians need to actively seek the truth about past violence and injustice against Indigenous Australians.
Vince Copley lived a long, impressive life, helping to make a better world for Aboriginal people. Born on a mission in 1936, he died aged 85, just after finishing his memoir, on 10 January 2022.
Like other Aboriginal leaders of the 1960s, Perkins viewed basic rights – housing, education and employment – as the building blocks of self-reliant communities.
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Associate professor, Jumbunna Insitute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney
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