Just another land grab: Why a clansman from the Red Centre has joined the battle for Redfern

By Rick Feneley
Updated February 27 2015 - 6:18pm, first published 5:42pm
Christopher Tomlins, from Alice Springs, has his morning cup of tea at The Block Tent Embassy in Redfern, Sydney. Christopher is a member of the Freedom Summit for Alice Springs delegation and will remain at the sit-in until "something positive that comes out of this standoff". Photo: Kate Geraghty
Christopher Tomlins, from Alice Springs, has his morning cup of tea at The Block Tent Embassy in Redfern, Sydney. Christopher is a member of the Freedom Summit for Alice Springs delegation and will remain at the sit-in until "something positive that comes out of this standoff". Photo: Kate Geraghty

Christopher Tomlins is a Yambah man from the vast arid lands north of Alice Springs, but for now he is camping on The Block, a forlorn patch of grass in inner-Sydney, in solidarity with its occupiers, the Redfern Aboriginal tent embassy.

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