{"id":1678,"date":"2013-11-11T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:36:36","slug":"british-royals-not-listening-to-australians-in-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"British Royals not Listening to Australians in 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Archives of Australia, the repository&nbsp;of Commonwealth Government records,&nbsp;presents a copy of the Larrakia petition from its collection to the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation.&nbsp; Signed by hundreds of Indigenous people, the petition appealed to Queen Elizabeth II,&nbsp;now Queen of&nbsp; Australia,&nbsp;to help Aboriginal people gain land rights and political representation.&nbsp; It reads in part: &#8220;Today, we are refugees in the country of our ancestors. We live in refugee camps without land, without employment, without justice.&#8221;&nbsp; In October 1972, the Larrakia people&nbsp;tried to hand&nbsp;this petition to Princess Margaret while she was in Darwin. After waiting 24 hours to meet with&nbsp;the Princess and being ignored, they tried to break through a police barricade but failed. [NAA e-newsletter&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:'news@archives'\">&#8216;news@archives&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;November 2013]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Archives of Australia, the repository&nbsp;of Commonwealth Government records,&nbsp;presents a copy of the Larrakia petition from its collection to the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation.&nbsp; Signed by hundreds of Indigenous people, the petition appealed to Queen Elizabeth II,&nbsp;now Queen of&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}