First nations activists led a protest to NSW parliament house on December 7 as a NSW Parliamentary inquiry into the mass incarceration of First Nations people and deaths in custody continues.

Young Gomeroi leaders led a passionate protest in Sydney on December 3 in opposition to Santos plan to drill 850 coal seam gas wells on their country in north west New South Wales.

50,000 people marched in the Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney on June 6. Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991, there have been at least 432 Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia and not one conviction.

10-15,000 people marched in Sydney's Invasion Day protest for Aboriginal rights on January 26. Black deaths in custody, the killing of rivers and communities and calls for recognition of sovereignty were key themes of the protest

State Wide Protest for Black Lives Matter in Sydney. The rally was organised and led by families of Aboriginal people who have been victims of police brutality in prison, or victims of crime whose cases have stalled or gone cold due to government racism and inaction.