![]() The Australian Freedom Rides brought Australian segregation into domestic and international spotlights, and called on non-Indigenous Australians to consider their personal implication in racism and racial politics at home. The tour was inspired by civil rights activism and non-violent direct action in the United States of America – including the CORE Freedom Rides - and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The students travelled through Wiradjuri, Kawambarai, Gumbaynggirr, Gamilaraay, Bundjalung, Dhan-gadi, Ngaku and Ngumbar country. Its purpose was to witness, publicise and challenge segregation and racial discrimination against Aboriginal people in regional towns in New South Wales. The Freedom Ride was a form of non-violent direct action taken by a politically disparate coalition of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous University students on a bus. This image shows the members of the Australian Freedom Ride in the town of Kempsey, New South Wales on the second-last day of their bus tour in February 1965. ![]() Gerry Mason also travelled with the group as a friend of Charles Perkins’, while Bill Pakenham and Ernie Albrecht drove the bus. Members of the 1965 Freedom Ride included Charles Perkins, Gary Williams, Ann Curthoys, Darce Cassidy, Jim Spiegelman, Pat Healy, Warwick Richards, Robyn Iredale, Aidan Foy, Alan Outhred, Helen Gray, Norm McKay, Louise Higham, John Gowdie, Machteld Hali, John Powles, Wendy Golding, Bob Gallagher, Chris Page, Sue Johnston, Paddy Dawson, Judith Rich, Colin Bradford, John Butterworth, David Pepper, Barry Corr, Beth Hansen, Derek Molloy, Brian Aarons, Sue Reeves, Hall Greenland, Ray Leppick, Rick Collins and Alex Mills. ![]() Image courtesy of Ann Curthoys/Wendy Golding. Thirty participants in front of the SAFA bus on the Australian Freedom Ride, in the town of Kempsey, New South Wales on 25 February 1965. ![]()
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