Known as the Freedom Ride, this 15-day bus journey through regional New South Wales would become a defining moment in Australian activism.

The Freedom Ride of 1965 was a journey undertaken by a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in a bus across New South Wales, led by Charles Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon civil rights activist.

2015年2月15日 · The Freedom Ride was seen as a turning point in Australia's black-white relations, and it helped win a "Yes" vote at a landmark 1967 referendum to finally include indigenous people in...

In 1965, a group of Australian activists boarded buses and set out on a journey across New South Wales and parts of south-east Queensland. Their aim was to raise awareness about the civil rights problems in Australia, and to inspire others to take action in support of racial equality.

2010年5月27日 · Two years after the Freedom Ride, in 1967, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted “yes” in a referendum that gave indigenous Australians full rights as citizens, marking a turning point in attitudes to Aboriginal rights.

The Freedom Ride, as it came to be called, included visits to Walgett, Gulargambone, Kempsey, Bowraville and Moree. Students were shocked at the living conditions which Aboriginal people endured outside the towns.

This week is the 50th anniversary of the momentous Freedom Ride that journeyed through western New South Wales in February 1965 to draw attention to injustice and discrimination against our First Peoples of Australia. On February 12th 1965, 29 non-Indigenous students boarded a bus with Aboriginal leader and rights campaigner Charles Perkins.

Read the information below on the 1965 Freedom Ride, taken from the National Museum of Australia’s ‘Collaborating for Indigenous Rights’, and answer the questions that follow.

2015年2月18日 · The national media coverage generated by the Freedom Ride empowered Aboriginal people to resist discrimination with renewed confidence. After the Freedom Ride bus left, communities showed incredible bravery and courage, in the face of hostile local reaction, to confront racism and discrimination.

Learn about the 1965 NSW Freedom Rides against prejudice and racial discrimination by exploring the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies’ (AIATSIS).