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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Alyx Gorman

Five Great Reads: Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 50, Claudia Karvan’s ‘Boyfriend’, cinema’s lost sex drive

ACT police officers remove tents and bedding from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra on 20 July 1972
ACT police officers remove tents and bedding from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra on 20 July 1972. Photograph: The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media/Getty Images

Good morning and welcome to Five Great Reads, written today on what always was and always will be Aboriginal land (Cammeraygal land, specifically – this has always been a multicultural place).

Whether it is a day to commemorate survival; to protest ongoing injustice; or if it’s just another work day for you, I hope all First Nations readers are able to do what they need to get through today, and that everyone else takes a moment to reflect on the history of this land and considers paying the rent (my colleagues have a podcast about that for you to listen to). And if you’re reading this from outside Australia and have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a piece from Chelsea Watego on the meaning of 26 January.

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