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Home » Latest News » Remembering the Freedom Riders, 60 years after they exposed segregation in Australia

Remembering the Freedom Riders, 60 years after they exposed segregation in Australia

Aunty Sandra Buchanan can walk freely today around her much-loved town of Bowraville in regional New South Wales, but her life hasn’t always been this way.

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Aubrey Lynch, a Wongatha elder, remembers when he and his mother couldn’t get into Kalgoorlie’s town centre.
Indigenous boxer and Olympian fought for his country, but battled for respect and recognition

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