Sovereignty Day Rally on Gadigal Land 26 January 2025: In Photos

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Sovereignty Day

A massive outpouring of over 10,000 First Nations people and their allies gathered on unceded Gadigal land in Sydney’s Belmore Park to protest the ongoing dispossession, denial of self-determination and genocide that’s been taking place on this continent in respect of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the last 237 years of the British launched settler colonial project. 

Sydney Criminal Lawyers was on the ground on Sovereignty Day to show solidarity with First Nations.

Always was always will be

Wiradjuri and Badu Island Yinaa Lynda-June Coe addressed the rally in opening, with Wiradjuri men Uncle Dave Bell and Willei Coe right
Wiradjuri and Badu Island Yinaa Lynda-June Coe addressed the rally in opening, with Wiradjuri men Uncle Dave Bell and Willei Coe right

Sovereignty Day Rally

Wiradjuri elder Uncle Dave Bell said Welcome to Country, with rally MC Wiradjuri and Gomeroi woman Kyana Hickey to his left
Wiradjuri elder Uncle Dave Bell said Welcome to Country, with rally MC Wiradjuri and Gomeroi woman Kyana Hickey to his left

Rally

Sovereignty Day organisers from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Wiradjuri and Gomeroi woman Nioka Coe and Gomeroi woman Gwenda Stanley
Sovereignty Day organisers from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Wiradjuri and Gomeroi woman Nioka Coe and Gomeroi woman Gwenda Stanley

NSW rally

Gloria Duffin is the granddaughter of Leslie Franks , who was part of the Stolen Generations and was sent to the notorious Kinchela Boys Home
Gloria Duffin is the granddaughter of Leslie Franks , who was part of the Stolen Generations and was sent to the notorious Kinchela Boys Home
Dunghutti man Paul Silva, the nephew of David Dungay Junior was killed at the hands of specialist prison guards at Long Bay Gaol in December 2015
Dunghutti man Paul Silva, the nephew of David Dungay Junior was killed at the hands of specialist prison guards at Long Bay Gaol in December 2015
On the megaphone, Gomeroi man Matthew Priestley leads the march in chant at the front of the Sovereignty Day 2025 march on Gadigal land as it made its way up Broadway
On the megaphone, Gomeroi man Matthew Priestley leads the march in chant at the front of the Sovereignty Day 2025 march on Gadigal land as it made its way up Broadway

Paul Gregoire

Paul Gregoire is a Sydney-based journalist and writer. He's the winner of the 2021 NSW Council for Civil Liberties Award For Excellence In Civil Liberties Journalism. Prior to Sydney Criminal Lawyers®, Paul wrote for VICE and was the news editor at Sydney’s City Hub.

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