William Cooper an aboriginal life story with Professor Bain Attwood

Presented by the Coburg Historical Society. Join us to hear Professor Bain Attwood discuss the life and work of William Cooper

Coburg Library

<p>Join us to hear Professor Bain Attwood discuss the life and work of William Cooper, his struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his fight for them to become citizens in their own country. Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and celebrated. Professor Attwood will focus on Cooper's most important campaigns, including his famous petition to the King George for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament and the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cumeroogunga reserve in 1939</p>

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