The world's longest-running Indigenous protest started with four men driving from Sydney to Canberra armed with a beach umbrella and three signs.
Angered at a land rights announcement by then-prime minister William McMahon, the Indigenous men - Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Bertie Williams and Tony Coorey - set up their protest on January 26, 1972, outside what was then Parliament House, hoisting an 'Aboriginal embassy' placard supported by the umbrella.
