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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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