Protest, Land Rights and Riots

The 1970s was a period of unprecedented political agency and legislative change in Aboriginal people's struggles for therecognition of postcolonial rights. What is significant is that they didn't just seek rights to be granted to them, but for some measure of rights to be restored to them. Against this background, rural communities where large Aboriginal populations lived, were in foment as a consequence ofpolitical and economic change, major structural change, social fragmentation and unparalle