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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Sally Pryor

'We need help to stop them!': the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and how ANU students helped to keep it there

Steve Padgham, right, with Yorta Yorta man Paul Whyman at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 50 years after protesting its removal by police in 1972. Picture: Keegan Carroll

It was a relatively ordinary Thursday morning on July 20, 1972, when a student burst into Humphrey McQueen's history lecture at the Australian National University.

"The cops are pulling down the tent embassy! We need help to stop them!" the student yelled.

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