The Museum of Australian Democracy acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging.
The museum respectfully acknowledges the role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to play in shaping Australia’s democracy.
xCloseBy 1984 Tom Carroll had serious misgivings about competing in Pro Surfing competition in South Africa. He considered the segregation of beaches abhorrent and could not see how it was fair that black people did not have the right to swim with everyone else.
I was very active in the anti-apartheid movement in Melbourne from the late 1960s to mid-1970s. I lived and breathed ‘red’ politics back then. In 2010, I wrote to Nelson Mandela, to share memories of the struggle.
