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We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures

Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a regular face at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy up until...

We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures
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His Waterloo home was filled with posters and memorabilia collected from rallies, protests, union meetings and film screenings over 50 years. A selection is now on display at Sydney’s Numbers gallery – in Ray Jackson Doing Time with Penrith Miers Archive, on until 2 August.

  • The Penrith Miers Archive is run by Jackson’s granddaughter Madika Penrith, a Wiradjuri/Yuin/Gumbaynggirr archivist, and her partner Sam Miers Take a stand on racism or send a message...
  • Tall Ships Tall Stories (1987) We Have Survived!

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Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a regular face at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy up until his death in 2015.

His Waterloo home was filled with posters and memorabilia collected from rallies, protests, union meetings and film screenings over 50 years. A selection is now on display at Sydney’s Numbers gallery – in Ray Jackson Doing Time with Penrith Miers Archive, on until 2 August.

The Penrith Miers Archive is run by Jackson’s granddaughter Madika Penrith, a Wiradjuri/Yuin/Gumbaynggirr archivist, and her partner Sam Miers

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Tall Ships Tall Stories (1987)

We Have Survived! White Australia Has a Black History (1988)

We Are Surviving the Killing Times (date unknown)

The Workplace Is No Place for Racism (1985)

Robert Walker (circa 1987)

White Australia Has a Black History (1988)

We’re Family Too (circa 1999)

Displacements – Palestinian / Northern Irish / Aboriginal (1983-84)

Rat Social and Control Conference (1984)

Ray Jackson (2015)

Australian art

Indigenous art

Indigenous Australians

Protest

Deaths in custody

Race

Indigenous incarceration