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Lesbian and Gay Rights Protests of 1978

Guest contributor Diane Minnis looks back at news file footage of the seminal lesbian and gay rights protests that followed the first Mardi Gras in Sydney, 1978.

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Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests - extended footage, August 1978

Ten News file footage of a gay rights demonstration that saw 300 people march from the fourth National Homosexual Conference at Paddington Town Hall to Taylor Square and Hyde Park in Sydney, 27 Aug

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Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests - extended footage, July 1978

Please note: this clip contains descriptions of violence and some scenes of violent arrest. The last three minutes of this clip are silent.

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Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests, August 1978

Ten News file footage of a Gay Rights demonstration and and anti-abortion demonstration that took place at Hyde Park on 27 August 1978.

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Eyewitness News: Gay rights protests, July 1978

File footage of a Gay Rights protest from 15 July 1978 that went through Sydney CBD, William Street, Kings Cross, outside Darlinghurst Police Centre to Hyde Park.

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Bicentenary protest coverage by Radio Redfern – Cheryl Rose interviews

During the 1988

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Australia Daze: World's oldest living culture

An Aboriginal protest march took place on Australia’s bicentenary 26 January 1988.

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Chained to the bar at the Regatta Hotel

Fed up with being excluded from drinking in public bars just because they were women, in March 1965 Merle Thornton and Rosalie Bogner chained themselves to the bar of the Regatta Hotel, Brisbane in

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Australia in Colour 2: women's protest
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Australian Biography: Zelda D'Aprano

Zelda D'Aprano (1928–2018) spent much of her life as a working-class crusader for women's rights.