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Eyewitness News: Protesting the 1978 Mardi Gras arrests

1978

Eyewitness News: Protesting the 1978 Mardi Gras arrests

1978

  • NFSA IDQQ83MG9G
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • GenresNews
  • Year1978

This Eyewitness News report is from Monday 26 June 1978, two days after the first Mardi Gras in Sydney.

Journalist Grant Dowling covers the protest outside Central Court following police arrests at the first Mardi Gras street march by lesbian and gay protesters on the previous Saturday night.

Read Ken Davis' first-hand account of the first Mardi Gras, a pivotal moment in Australian social and political history.

Courtesy of
Network Ten

This Eyewitness News report is from Monday 26 June 1978, two days after the first Mardi Gras in Sydney.

Journalist Grant Dowling covers the protest outside Central Court following police arrests at the first Mardi Gras street march by lesbian and gay protesters on the previous Saturday night.

Read Ken Davis' first-hand account of the first Mardi Gras, a pivotal moment in Australian social and political history.

Courtesy of
Network Ten
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