We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of New South Wales stands.

Meredith Burgmann – politician and activist

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A talk in association with the new contemporary galleries, featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection.

Politician and activist Meredith Burgmann presents I was a teenage demonstrator: sex, race and war in the 60s and 70s, discussing her arrest-prone early political activity against the backdrop of conservative Australia and the beginnings of New Left ideology and anti-Vietnam, anti-apartheid, land rights, green bans and women’s lib activism.