July 20, 1972: A sidelight on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra
The 10 o’clock Thursday lecture on twentieth-century Australian History had barely begun when one of my students, Steve Padgem, burst into the Hayden-Allen tank shouting: ‘The cops are pulling down the tent embassy! We need help to stop them!’ The class moved from thinking back on what had happened in this country, into playing our small part in shaping its future. …
