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Low-angled photo looling up to Ken Wyatt dressed in kangaroo-skinned cloak. He is looking into the distance.





Woman crouches on dirt next to smartly dressed preschooler with infant on her lap. Toddler stands with doll and toy pram on dirt

Teenager in bushland setting wearing simple dress, cardigan and no shoes. Family photo of two adults and five children

Rolling green hills dotted with white cottages and dorms. Three simple beds positioned closely together with a soft toy on each

"Even moving from one town to another they still had to have permission."
Black and white image of paperwork labelled "Native Affairs" tied with thick string and a woman happily holding a healthy baby

"A group of locals … had a petition drawn up and they wanted to have people sign it to have us moved out of the town,"
he said.

Busy CBD street with tram travelling on road and people on footpath. Old paper map of Perth with red markings

"[It] really brought home, very strongly, the number of people who had [negative] attitudes, still, to Indigenous people,"
Wyatt said.

Black of and white photo of boy in plain school shirt smiling. Man in suit poses next to beaming older woman with white hair.

"Her input ultimately gave me the success in education that I would never have got if I'd been ignored."

Black and white photo of Neville Bonner at desk signing papers in a suit. Colour photo of girl and boy in blazers laying wreath

Man with short, greying hair stands holding white papers wears an animal-skin cloak in parliament as peers listen behind him

Two men shake hands and smile. Both wear suits. One wears a traditional kangaroo-skinned cloak over his suit jacket

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