Photographer Juno Gemes has spent the last 50 years documenting Aboriginal Australian culture and the fight for justice, from the sands of the Tanami Desert to the carpeted corridors of Parliament House in CanberraHer book Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights. Photographs 1970-2024 is published by Upswell Publishing in Australia, $65Warning: this gallery has images of people who are now deceased Continue reading…Photographer Juno Gemes has spent the last 50 years documenting Aboriginal Australian culture and the fight for justice, from the sands of the Tanami Desert to the carpeted corridors of Parliament House in CanberraHer book Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights. Photographs 1970-2024 is published by Upswell Publishing in Australia, $65Warning: this gallery has images of people who are now deceased Continue reading… Skip to main content
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David Dhalatnghu Gulpilil, Yolŋu dancer, actor and cultural teacher, plays yidaki (Yolŋu for the didgeridoo unique to East Arnhem Land) at Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery in Paddington, Sydney, 1986
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Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon man Charlie Perkins, chair of the Aboriginal Development Commission, with his wife Eileen Perkins at the Handback ceremony, Uluru-Kata Tju, 1985
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Wiradjuri tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley wins the White City Women’s Tennis Tournament at the International Tennis Tournament, Sydney, 1982
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Phillip Langley, a dancer from Mornington Island, at an Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre dress rehearsal at Three Space, Union Theatre, the University of Sydney, 1978
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African American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin on the rooftop of the Athenaeum Hotel, London, 1976
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Countrymen elders Norman Brown, Gerry Brown and Billy Kooippa from Aurukun and Mornington Island greet each other before Ceremony on Mornington Island, 1978
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Former prime minister Gough Whitlam, Pastor Ossie Cruse (chair of the National Aboriginal Congress) and Michael Anderson (of the Aboriginal Legal Service) before they lobby African nations to boycott the Commonwealth Games, Sydney airport press room, 1981
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Kamilaroi Elder Bill Reid casts his vote at the 1981 National Aboriginal Congress election in Redfern
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Artist and actor Wandjuk Djuakan Marika plays yidaki on the way to the Apmira Artists for Land Rights exhibition in Sydney, 1981
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Kids on the Block in Redfern, 1980
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Author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi visits poet Robert Adamson and photographer Juno Gemes on the Hawkesbury River, NSW in 1994
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Darren carries the Sacred Fire from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, outside Old Parliament House, before the then prime minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations, March 2008
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Anangu Minyma Law woman Nura Ward, who believed that being collaborative and wanting to share her knowledge with non-Indigenous women would ensure the continuity of her culture
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Prof Marcia Langton backstage at the 2013 Deadly awards at the Sydney Opera House, where she presented the inaugural Marcia Langton lifetime award for leadership
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Then prime minister Kevin Rudd invited Stolen Generations members Netta Cahill, Lorna Cubillo and Valerie Day to witness the presentation of the apology in the House of Representatives. They comfort each other after the reading of the bill on 13 February 2008
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Anangu Law woman Nelly Patterson, family and community members dance during the Uluru Handback 25th anniversary celebration in 2010
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The Sacred Fire is always kept burning at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 2014

