On a wet Sunday afternoon over a hundred people attended a memorial for Lanz Priestley in Martin Place on 21st November which began with an Indigenous smoking ceremony (seen above). Lanz will be remembered as an activist for social justice who fought for the rights of homeless people in the city as well as drought ravaged farming communities out west. He is known for making Australia's homelessness problem more visible by organising a tent city set up in Martin Place for Sydney's homeless residents and went on to run 24/7 street kitchen which is still active today. Lanz (seen below in 2017 marching for the rights of the Darling River and its inhabitants) also set up Dignity Water with volunteers and crowdfunding to make regular runs of drinking water for dry towns along the Darling suffering from drought and government water mismanagement. More info here.
