Clinton Pryor walked more than 5,500 kilometres from Perth to Canberra to be a voice for Aboriginal people.

Clinton Pryor walked across Australia, gathering tales of tragedy, humour and hope — stories he now plans to share with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Clinton Pryor left Perth on foot one year ago with only seven songs to listen to on repeat.

He left home clean-shaven, but today his beard reaches his chest — and he has downloaded a few more songs.

And his message for the Prime Minister, which was once his own, now comes from all the Aboriginal communities he has passed through.

The 27-year-old has walked almost 6,000 kilometres in his journey to Parliament House in Canberra.

He is a softly spoken man, but in his eyes are all the steps he has taken across this burnt country.

On Sunday Clinton made his final approach into Canberra, and is calling on Mr Turnbull to come out to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Tuesday and meet him — sovereign to sovereign.

"Sit down and for once to actually listen, because every time we try to get things done for our people, it's always their way, the politics way," Clinton said.

In the days before leaving, Clinton visited the graves of his mother and father to lay flowers.

He gave up his home and moved his possessions into storage.

Then he set out with three weeks of pay, a bag, a walking stick, spears and crystals given to him by his elders, and ochre from a secret site to paint up his face when he arrived in Canberra.

This walk would be to honour his parents, and in protest of the forced closure of Aboriginal communities out west.

'So much pain in my people's eyes'

Clinton's plan was to visit some of those remote communities on his journey, but just weeks into his year-long walk, that plan took a turn.

He arrived in Kalgoorlie to the funeral of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty, who was run over and killed in an incident that has torn the town apart.

"Today was the hardest day so far," Clinton wrote at the time.

"I have seen so much hurt and pain in my people's eyes today at the funeral. The pain of no justice for young Elijah."

Kalgoorlie rioted, and a year later, when the driver was found not guilty of manslaughter, protests erupted across the country.

"What I have seen on this walk was nothing but hardness. It was very hard, seeing issues affecting Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people," Clinton said.

Punishing heat of the Australian outback

He said sometimes the punishing heat and loneliness nearly broke him, with the most difficult time being the 16 days spent wandering the desert without fresh water.

"There was a time when I snapped and threw my stick away and my hat away, and yelled out into the wild, 'Why am I here?'," he said.

But the challenge also awoke something in him.

"Something jumped into my heart and told me to get back up and continue walking," Clinton said.

"I understand what it was how our ancestors walked across the country, how our old people walked across the country."

A messenger for the Aboriginal community

Communities across the country have met with Clinton as he has passed through, telling their tales of tragedy and humour and hope.

Clinton has listened.

And as he has gathered their stories, his message has changed.

He walks into Canberra with a call for treaty and for politicians to listen to Australia's First Nations.

"The country has been living a lie for 229 years, the only way this country can move forward is with truth and justice," he said.

More than a dozen federal politicians have told Clinton they will come down to the tent embassy on Tuesday to have a yarn.

Clinton is yet to hear whether Mr Turnbull or Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will join them.