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Six decades on, remembering the Freedom Ride through Wellington

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The past is another country, they say and, 60 years on from Charles Perkins’s “Freedom Ride” through western NSW, it’s hard to believe how different life in towns like Wellington was for Indigenous Australians.

Inspired by the American Freedom Rides of the early 1960s highlighting racial discrimination against black Americans, Perkins, a student activist, led an Australian equivalent to add...


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