It was significant because it was inspired by The Black Power movement in the US, this was the time when the Aboriginal people where first politically very active and this was the time where they had legal and health services. They set up a tent, set up in front of the Parliament house. This is when the indigenous people stood up and demanded there land rights back and that the area they lived on since time. These land rights where considered the key commercial independence and land base to generate resources and employment to them. But in 1971 the Northern Territory Supreme Court decided against Aboriginal people and in favor of a mining company to have access to Aboriginal land. Australian common law, the justice concluded, did not recognize Aboriginal land rights. A man named Charles Burke and other ministers at the time gave the indigenous an umbrella, symbolizing there recognition of the indigenous people. But a protest between them, where taken upon violently, injuring thousands of indigenous and non-indigenous citizens.