One of the early supporters of Canberra's Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Cheryl Buchanan, has revisited the site for the NAIDOC Week celebrations, saying there's a lot more work to do for Indigenous rights.
Cheryl Buchanan was part of this sovereignty movement in the 1970s. Later this week Cheryl Buchanan will be speaking at Inside Out, a conference looking at how Indigenous activism has changed since the early days.
Ms Buchanan says Australia could learn from the experience of other countries that have a similar past.
"History is put in its place, they talk about massacres and they talk about all of the terrible things that happened but then they learn how to celebrate things that are happening now because they are moving forward together. That's what we need to do here".
Ms Buchanan says 40 years ago the Aboriginal Tent Embassy focused on equality in health, education and land rights and she says still today they are still fighting the same battle.
