Gurnji people
Our rights
A sign showing gurinji cattle station.
Aboriginal stockmen protesting for
equal wages walked off Wave Hill pastoral station
in the Northern Territory 1966.
The strike led to land legislation almost 10 years later.
Main topic
On strike
Wave Hill cattle station, 800 kilometers south of Darwin.
Vincent Lingiari led 200 Aboriginal workers off their jobs
It was a strike that would last 7 years.
The giving
Gough witlam giving back the land.
16 August 1975 Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of Aboriginal elder
Vincent Lingiari
Gough whitlam gives back the land to the Gurinji people.