| Main Title: |
Some signposts from Daguragu : the inaugural Lingiari lecture / Delivered by Sir William Deane Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. |
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| Author: |
Deane, W. P. (William Patrick) Sir, 1931-
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| Imprint: |
Darwin, NT : Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, 1996. |
| Collation: |
20 p. : ill., portraits, notes, bib., pbk ; 30 cm. |
| Summary: |
On 23 August 1966 Vincent Lingiari led members of his Gurindji tribe and other groups off Wave Hill Station, 600 kilometres south-west of Katherine in the Northern Territory, which was owned by the British Vestey group of companies, to a river bed nearby.Most Australians at the time probably scarcely noticed this seemingly minor though highly unusual event, if they knew anything about it at all. Yet the ripples from the Wave Hill walk-off and strike were to keep travelling outwards across Australian society, gathering the force of a wave which eventually reshaped the agenda of relationships between indigenous Australians and the wider society.
The immediate catalyst for the strike was the refusal of Vestey's Manager at Wave Hill to meet Vincent Lingiari's request that Aboriginal stockmen be paid $25 a week. But what was apparently an industrial dispute over appalling working and living conditions soon revealed itself as a demand by the Gurindji people for the return of their traditional lands.
The strike lasted seven years, and over that time a significant movement of political and practical support built up across Australia, linking in with the early beginnings of the renewed Aboriginal rights movements of the late sixties and early seventies. Finally, in 1975 the then Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, handed back to the Gurindji people the rights to some of their traditional lands. |
| Subject: |
Lingiari, Vincent, 1908-1988
Strikes
Land rights
Addresses, essays, lectures
Wave Hill Station (NT)
First Nations Australians
First Nations Australians - - Land rights
Gurindji (First Nations Australian people).
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| Edition: |
August 1996. |
| ISBN: |
0642258104 |
| Notes: |
The inaugural Albert Lingiari lecture was delivered in Darwin at the Northern Territory University on Thursday 22 August 1996 at the invitation of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
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