A chance to meet an Australian Aboriginal leader in London
Diet Simon | 03.01.2004 19:28 | Anti-racism | London | World
Tears of joy after winning a land rights ruling, later overturned.
Anderson is available to give talks until 22 January.
He was recently elected Chairman of the Gumilaroi Nation of 15,000 people, Australia’s second largest Aboriginal group, who are spread through northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. His own clan are claiming the Lightning Ridge area famous for and wealthy from opal mining.
Anderson was one of the half dozen young activists who in 1972 set up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.
He’s a jurist, historian, painter, university lecturer and former professional rugby player who has campaigned for Aboriginal rights in Australia and internationally for 30 years.
He and his German wife now work a sheep farm near Hebel in southern Queensland which is gradually becoming a centre for Aboriginal recovery in the area.
Anderson can be contacted at telephone Germany #49 - 2844 – 15 19, Sapotnik.
Diet Simon