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Elder Vincent Langari, followed by 200 Gurindji stockmen, women and children walk off Vestey’s Wave Hill cattle station. They are protesting against the occupation of their land, unfair treatment, and poor working and living conditions.
Gurindji people are commonly paid in salt, beef, flour, sugar and tea.
Setting up camp at Daguragu (Wattie Creek), Gurindji people stay and refuse to work until better conditions and a fair wage is provided by the Vestey Brothers. In this waiting time, the Gurindji people send requests and petitions to the Territory and Federal Governments. Despite widespread support both internationally and from Non-Aboriginal Australians, no action was taken to resolve the issues.
In 1974, the Gurindji people were able to purchase their land back from the Government. The protest will become a keystone in the Aboriginal Land Rights movement and will serve as a powerful reminder that sovereignty was never ceded.