What happened, and why it still matters

Briefings on Key Dates

Some dates in Australia matter far more than the school curriculum ever admitted. Each briefing here gives you one of them in about five minutes: starting with a short video to watch first, then the essentials in plain points.

I prepare them for guests coming to a Yarning Circle, and I leave them here for anyone else who wants the ground under their feet before the conversation starts.

23 August 1966 · Sixtieth anniversary

The Wave Hill Walk-off, Sixty Years On

Vincent Lingiari led about two hundred Gurindji stockmen, domestic workers and their families off Wave Hill Station. What started over rations and wages became a nine-year claim for Country, and it ended with a handful of red soil and a change in Australian law.

A five-minute video, six points, and the common ground I draw between this story and Remah Naji's.

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