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Freedom Ride: 50 years on

Full coverage as Guardian Australia goes on the road for the 50th anniversary re-enactment of the 1965 Freedom Ride

18 March 2015

  • Michael Graham

    Indigenous rapper MC Boomalli raps loud and proud: 'We don't believe in shame around here' – video

    Michael Graham steals the show at a concert in Walgett, NSW for the 1965 Freedom Ride re-enactment.

23 February 2015

  • Moree pool swimmers

    'Only good one's a dead one': Indigenous men recall how they defied the racism of 1965 Australia – video

    Indigenous men recall how, as children, they were banned from swimming in public pools

22 February 2015

  • A new generation of Freedom Riders from University of Sydney in front of their bus.

    What next for Freedom Ride and bringing change to Indigenous Australia?

    Max Hall and Samantha Jonscher
    For a new generation of students, the 2015 Freedom Ride was more than a commemoration – it was the revival of work that began 50 years ago
  • Kyol Freedom Rider

    Freedom Ride 50 years on: 'Young blood' must carry on work started in 1965, says student leader - video

    Kyol Blakeney leads the cohort of current University of Sydney students taking part in the 50th anniversary re-enactment of the Freedom Ride
  • Ann Edwards seated in Bowraville theatre, which once segregated its audience by race.

    The day the Freedom Riders gatecrashed the Bowraville cinema with a colour bar

    Ann Edwards recalls the day 50 years ago when her hero, the Freedom Ride leader Charles Perkins, came to town, with his first stop being the racially segregated picture theatre

21 February 2015

  • Charles Perkins and local Moree children at the pool in 1965 alongside a photo taken in 2015 of Perkins’ daughter Rachel reunited with those from the original photo.

    Freedom Ride: revisiting the dip in the pool that changed a segregated town

    In 1965, Charles Perkins and his fellow Sydney University students ran the gauntlet of booing, fruit-throwing residents to take a group of Indigenous children for a swim in the town pool

20 February 2015

  • Sisters Karen Rutterman and Cynthia Briggs stand in front of the Aboriginal flag in Walgett.

    Freedom Ride returns to Walgett, the town where the RSL banned black diggers

    In 1965 in this small western NSW town, Aboriginal people were segregated in the cinema and barred from the RSL, even if they were returned servicemen

19 February 2015

  • Orana Juvenile Justice in Dubbo

    Freedom Ride: plenty of lessons to be learned at Dubbo juvenile justice centre

    The 2015 Freedom Ride commemorating the groundbreaking 1965 bus trip reaches Dubbo, and a group of teenagers gather in the presence of living history

18 February 2015

  • Freedom Ride

    Fifty years on, Freedom Ride again holds up a mirror to white Australia

  • freedom ride

    The re-enactment of the 1965 Freedom Ride through northern New South Wales departs at dawn – video

23 January 2015

  • The 1965 Freedom Ride which is being re-enacted for its 50th anniversary.

    Freedom Ride to be re-enacted by university students for 50th anniversary

    The daughter of original Freedom Ride leader Charles Perkins will be joined by former Freedom Riders and current Sydney University students
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