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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“The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)