These histories remind us how long First Nations people have waited for political recognition in this country – and that, compared to other former colonial sites, Australia is the exception, not the rule.
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What Yorta Yorta leader William Cooper was asking for was a means by which Australia’s lawmakers could be informed of the views of Aboriginal people.
While Australians’ general knowledge of the Holocaust is high, few people knew who William Cooper was or that Australia refused to accept more Jewish refugees in 1938.
William Cooper was in his 70s when he began a remarkable political campaign, pushing for Indigenous rights and recognition.
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