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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 24. 28th September 1972

Overthrow

Overthrow

Although he acknowledges that "people need to know what existed before the white people got here", Dennis does not believe in reviving an interest in corroborees and other aspects of Aboriginal culture "because they won't give us a change in the power distribution of society".

Walker explained quite clearly in answer to a question that they have no hope, nor any aim to work through the "white capitalist system"; they hate this system and want to overthrow it completely. He also explained how he would tike to organise the black community to take over conventional power systems in society, he talked of taking over the lesser strata of the bureaucratic process (e.g. local Abschol) and gaining economic power through having black representatives on committees throughout all sections of the community.