Huge crowds march on 50th anniversary of Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Organisers estimate 2500 people turned out for the Invasion Day of Mourning event, where there were loud chants of “what do we want? land rights” and signs saying things like “no pride in genocide”.

He along with three others – Billy Craigie, Joe Williams and Tony Coorey – pitched a beach umbrella on the lawns opposite what’s now known as Old Parliament House, in the moment that began it all. Mr Anderson said despite the 26th being the anniversary, they technically set up their umbrella at 12.45am on the 27th.

Ngalan Gilbert, the grandson of Aboriginal activist and author Kevin Gilbert, attended the main march which finished at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, which became a permanent site in 1992.

2000 plus seems like a relatively precise estimation of crowd size. Where were these crowd counters during last year's anti-mandate rallies? The counts were out by at least a factor of 10x.

Idle shitstirrers

And what’s been achieved in 50 years?

And there will be 2000+ hospitalisation by next week

Is that all?

Did they set fire to any buildings this time?

Why are they marching? Do they want to go back to eating bugs and living on dirt? Setting fires to forests to scare animals out because they can't hunt them like more advanced cultures would? Go back to cannibalising their young? They just want everything handed to them.

Did they try to burn down Old Parliament House again?

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