• Monday, 17 February 2025
• Photos supplied by Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service

On Monday, 17 February 2025, the Governor and Mr Wilson joined the Walgett community, Freedom Riders from 1965 and NSW Parliamentarians in a ceremony to mark 60 years since Charles Perkins and 28 University of Sydney students set out in a bus from Sydney to challenge racism and discrimination in NSW communities and to advocate for change. 

The Governor reflected on the political, social and cultural impact of the Ride in bringing about change: “Two years later, an overwhelming 90.77% of the Australian population voted ‘Yes’ in the 1967 Referendum, whereby all Aboriginal Australians were counted in the national census.”