Tent Embassy
The Ngunnawal people had no part in the founding of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972.
The opening speech by the chairman at the constitutional convention at Old Parliament House held on 2 February 1998 included: We acknowledge that we are meeting today on country of which the people of the Ngunnawal tribe have been custodians for many centuries and on which the members of that tribe performed age-old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal.
In October 2002, some Ngunnawal members wanted to evict the residents of the tent embassy who had "lost their way".
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Famous quotes containing the word tent:
“A stranger came one night to Yussouf’s tent,
Saying, “Behold one outcast and in dread,
Against whose life the bow of power is bent,
Who flies, and hath not where to lay his head;
I come to thee for shelter and for food,
To Yussouf, called through all our tribes ‘he Good.’ “
“This tent is mine,” said Yussouf, “but no more
Than it is God’s; come in, and be at peace;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)