Juno Gemes' book Until Justice Comes: 50 years of Aboriginal art and activism
David Dhalatnghu Gulpilil, Yolŋu dancer, actor and cultural teacher, plays yidaki (Yolŋu for the didgeridoo unique to East Arnhem Land) at Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery in Paddington, Sydney, 1986
Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon man Charlie Perkins, chair of the Aboriginal Development Commission, with his wife Eileen Perkins at the Handback ceremony, Uluru-Kata Tju, 1985
Wiradjuri tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley wins the White City Women's Tennis Tournament at the International Tennis Tournament, Sydney, 1982
Phillip Langley, a dancer from Mornington Island, at an Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre dress rehearsal at Three Space, Union Theatre, the University of Sydney, 1978
Four generations together: Granny Simpson with a portrait of her mother, Marjorie Peters-Little, her daughter Frances, and Frances's son James Henry at Granny Simpson's house, Sydney, 2005
African American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin on the rooftop of the Athenaeum Hotel, London, 1976
Countrymen elders Norman Brown, Gerry Brown and Billy Kooippa from Aurukun and Mornington Island greet each other before Ceremony on Mornington Island, 1978
Former prime minister Gough Whitlam, Pastor Ossie Cruse (chair of the National Aboriginal Congress) and Michael Anderson (of the Aboriginal Legal Service) before they lobby African nations to boycott the Commonwealth Games, Sydney airport press room, 1981
Kamilaroi Elder Bill Reid casts his vote at the 1981 National Aboriginal Congress election in Redfern
Artist and actor Wandjuk Djuakan Marika plays yidaki on the way to the Apmira Artists for Land Rights exhibition in Sydney, 1981
Kids on the Block in Redfern, 1980
Author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi visits poet Robert Adamson and photographer Juno Gemes on the Hawkesbury River, NSW in 1994
Darren carries the Sacred Fire from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, outside Old Parliament House, before the then prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations, March 2008
Anangu Minyma Law woman Nura Ward, who believed that being collaborative and wanting to share her knowledge with non-Indigenous women would ensure the continuity of her culture
Prof Marcia Langton backstage at the 2013 Deadly awards at the Sydney Opera House, where she presented the inaugural Marcia Langton lifetime award for leadership
Then prime minister Kevin Rudd invited Stolen Generations members Netta Cahill, Lorna Cubillo and Valerie Day to witness the presentation of the apology in the House of Representatives. They comfort each other after the reading of the bill on 13 February 2008
Anangu Law woman Nelly Patterson, family and community members dance during the Uluru Handback 25th anniversary celebration in 2010
The Sacred Fire is always kept burning at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 2014
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