Bill Onus campaigns ‘Vote Yes for Aboriginal Rights’ Facsimile

Australia, 1967

Courtesy AAP Image / National Library of Australia

Object First Nations On display

Bill Onus, President of the Victorian Aborigines’ Advancement League (right), participating as the only Aboriginal in the march for Aboriginal Rights referendum on May 29, 1967.

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

On display until

16 February 2031

ACMI: Gallery 1

Credits

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1967

Appears in

Group of items

Bill Onus

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

FC180199

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Australia → MA-07. First Peoples: Our stories, our way → MA-07-01 Bill Onus

Measurements

297 x 210mm

Object Types

2D Object

Exhibition Prop

Facsimile

Photographic print/Pictorial

Materials

Digital print on paper

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