A new exhibition about Aboriginal activism in Australia and the fight for justice will be showcased at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre, Melbourne Museum from
12 June 2010.

Developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia, From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970 tells the story of a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians who worked together to fight for justice for Aboriginal people.

The exhibition celebrates some 'ordinary extraordinary' heroes and highlights key figures in the fight for Indigenous rights. One of these was Anthony Martin Fernando, an Aboriginal protestor who stood outside Australia House in London in the 1920s wearing a coat sewn over with toy skeletons, a message that conveyed what the Australian Government had done to his people. A portrait of Fernando, painted by a Sikh Australian, Raj Nagi, is on display in the exhibition.

From Little Things Big Things Grow explores many key events that took place in Australia in the fight for justice, from the Day of Mourning and Protest on 26 January 1938 where a group of Aboriginal activists protested against the 150th anniversary of British colonisation in Australia, to the 1967 Referendum. These events all contributed towards the first Australians being recognised as more than second-class citizens in their own country.