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A blackboard displayed outside the hall proclaims, "Day of Mourning"
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A large blackboard displayed outside the hall (Australia Hall) proclaims, "Day of Mourning". Leaflets warned that, "Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend". At 5 o'clock in the afternoon resolution of indignation, protest, was moved, passed (sic). ..This image is part of the collections of the State Library of NSW and has been used with permission. The State Library’s Flickr Commons channel can be accessed via the following link:..statelibraryofnsw ( statelibraryofnsw )
The pageant "Australia's March to Nationhood," which was the imposing initial item in the 150th anniversary celebrations of New South Wales, and which symbolised the milestones in Australia’s 150 years of history and development from the days of its struggling infancy, was one of the most magnificent and stirring spectacles ever seen in the Commonwealth. It took more than 1½ hours to pass a given point, and it was about 1½ miles in length. From the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS), Australia’s oldest historical organisation founded in Sydney in 1901, promotes the study of Australian history.
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