Protesters march to Parliament House : March honors Mother D |
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| Title : | Protesters march to Parliament House : March honors Mother D |
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| Source : | Sunday Mail, 10 May 1992, p. 8 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1992 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
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Report of 'March for Human Rights and Justice' on Saturday 9 March 1992. The march from Victoria Square to Parliament House comprised about 40 protesters. March organiser, Lisa Robinson, said, 'We're marching in Mother D's memory - she wanted all Aborigines to join the fight for justice. Mother D (Alice Dixon) had died on 6 May 1992. Her son Kingsley was found hanged in Adelaide Gaol in 1987, and Alice Dixon, had helped spark the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody. |
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| Related names : | Dixon, Alice |
| Coverage year : | 1992 |
| Further reading : | Aboriginal deaths in custody : response by Governments to the Royal Commission, Canberra, 1992 Report of the inquiry into the death of Kingsley Richard Dixon : Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Canberra, c1989 |
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