Thirty years on from the 1982 protests: where to now for Aboriginal rights?

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In Brisbane over the weekend, more than 1000 people marched through the streets to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Brisbane Commonwealth Games protests. The protests were made in response to the Bjelke-Peterson Government’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protection Act. They lasted 11 days and made international headlines.

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