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    Aboriginal Tent Embassy Welegation
    visit Westminster London UK

    19 November 2001

     

       
    Isabell Coe lighting the Sacred Fire for
    Peace and Justice on the docks of Deptford
    at the place where Lieutenent Cook and
    the Endeavor embarked from on their voyage
    to Australia in the late 1760s.
    left
       

    Isabell Coe and supporters displaying
    the Aboriginal flag outside Westminster parliament,
    before their meeting with Jeremy Corbyn MP.
    right

       
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    • Aboriginals visit Westminster
      19 November 2001 - The Aboriginal Tent Embassy from Canberra Australia today met with members of Westminster Parliament to discuss the fact that the Aboriginals of Australia never ceded their sovereignty to the British when Australia.
    • Aboriginal fire ceremony on Dover's beach
      3 September 2001- An Aboriginal fire ceremony , was performed yesterday on Dover's beach by a delegation from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra. Isabell Coe, Leader of the delegation explained that the traditional fire ceremony was to "let the land know we are here.''

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