Ghillar Michael Anderson

[1][2][3] In 1972 he was one of the four men who set up the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, as a protest in the struggle for the recognition of Indigenous land rights in Australia,[4][5] eventually becoming its High Commissioner.

[6] As a participant in the Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project, Anderson has collaborated[2] with academic astronomers Robert Fuller and Duane Hamacher[7] in sharing and documenting traditional star knowledge.

[9] Anderson was featured in a documentary film about Aboriginal Australian astronomy, which was widely shown, including in schools.

He was elected his nation's head of state and informed Queen Elizabeth II.

1951), of Goodooga, NSW (Australia), is an Aboriginal elder, Senior Law Man, and leader of the Euahlayi people bordering northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.

First day of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra on 17 January 1972. Left to right: Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Ghillar Michael Anderson and Tony Coorey.