Accessible Museum & Gallery In King George TerraceAboriginal Tent Embassy
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is located on the lawns opposite Parliament House, Canberra & is a permanent protest occupation site as a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people.
Strictly speaking this is not a tourist destination or an "embassy" in the normal sense of the term. Rather it is a place where you may go to learn and understand something of the story behind the "Embassy".
Accessible bathrooms can be found at Old Parliament House, Rose Garden & Treasury Building. Accessible parking can be found at Questacon, Car park 23, 31, 19 & National Gallery of Australia.
On 26 January 1972 four Indigenous men set up a beach umbrella on the lawns. Describing the umbrella as the Aboriginal Embassy, the men were protesting the McMahon government’s approach to Indigenous land rights.
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is situated on the lawn with paved level pathways around it.