United Kingdom: Death Scene Protester: An Aboriginal Rights Activist In 1920s London


United Kingdom: Death Scene Protester: An Aboriginal Rights Activist In 1920s London Fiona Paisley, 2011   This essay concerns the protest of an Australian Aboriginal man outside Australia House in central London. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando made regular appearances outside Australia House on the Strand. Dressed in a black cloth on which he had sewn tiny skeletons, he expressed his condemnation of recent massacres of Aboriginal people in outback Australia. His activities still...

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