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Bill Onus campaigns ‘Vote Yes for Aboriginal Rights’

Australia, 1967
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Yorta Yorta activist, artist and entrepreneur Bill Onus shared his culture as an act of resistance and reclamation of power. He helped establish the Aborigine..

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