PHOTO: The bus used in the 1965 Freedom Ride. IMAGE: IATSIS
A unique memorial that has been years in the planning for Walgett can now begin to take shape.
The Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service (WAMS) has secured $474,607 in NSW Government grants to develop and construct a Freedom Ride Memorial Park on land they have secured and saved for the purpose.
In 1965, a group of students left Sydney and toured regional NSW on a bus to draw attention to injustice and discrimination against Aboriginal people…