The 1965 Freedom Ride through New South Wales towns and the publicity it gained, including in overseas newspapers such as the New York Times, illuminated to the world the racial discrimination happening in Australia.

The Freedom Ride was a 15-day journey undertaken in February 1965 by a group of non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians in a bus across New South Wales, led by Charles Perkins, an Aboriginal civil rights activist.

Feb 15, 2015 · The Freedom Ride was seen as a turning point in Australia's black-white relations, and it helped win a "Yes" vote at a landmark 1967 referendum to finally include indigenous people in...

Oct 19, 2000 · This 15-day bus journey, inspired by the famed 1961 US civil rights Freedom Rides, aimed to highlight substandard living conditions for First Nations people and …

In 1965, a group of Australian activists boarded buses and set out on a journey across New South Wales and parts of south-east Queensland. Their aim was to raise awareness about the civil rights problems in Australia, and to inspire others to take action in support of racial equality.

Feb 21, 2025 · Standing out the front of the pool, members of the Freedom Ride began protesting after a group of six young Aboriginal boys from the Moree mission, on the outskirts of town, were refused entry.

The 1965 Freedom Ride – led by Uncle Charlie Perkins and his fellow students at the University of Sydney – was a significant event that drew national and international attention to poor living conditions faced by Aboriginal people and the racism that was rife …

Read the information below on the 1965 Freedom Ride, taken from the National Museum of Australia’s ‘Collaborating for Indigenous Rights’, and answer the questions that follow.

The 1965 Freedom Ride was a 15-day bus ride through regional New South Wales aimed to expose the racism experienced by First Nations people, including segregation and exclusion.

The national media coverage generated by the Freedom Ride empowered Aboriginal people to resist discrimination with renewed confidence. After the Freedom Ride bus left, communities showed incredible bravery and courage, in the face of hostile local reaction, to confront racism and discrimination.