Qualla: Wave Hill Walk-Off https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wave Hill Walk-Off https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off Wave Hill Walk-Off: Introduction https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off/ "We were treated just like dogs," Billy Bunter Jampijinpa said of life on Wave Hill Station. "We were lucky to get paid the 50 quid a month we were due, and we lived in tin humpies you had to crawl in and out on your knees. There was no running water. The food was bad -- just flour, tea, sugar and bits of beef like the head or feet of a bullock." He was sixteen years old on 23 August 1966, the day 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants, and their families stopped working for the Vestey Group and started walking. They would not return for seven years.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/u/v/j/wave-hill-walk-off-wp/quvj-wave-hill-walk-off-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wave Hill Walk-Off: Sixty Thousand Years, Then the Cattle Came https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off/ The Gurindji people had lived on their traditional lands in the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory for tens of thousands of years. European contact began around 1844, when explorer Augustus Gregory crossed into their territory. By 1883, Wave Hill Station had been est...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/u/v/j/wave-hill-walk-off-wp/quvj-wave-hill-walk-off-sixty-thousand-years-then-the-cattle-came.mp3 0:06 2 full Wave Hill Walk-Off: The Day They Walked https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off/ The strike began on 23 August 1966, led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari. Two hundred people -- stockmen, domestic workers, their families -- left the station. Initially, most white observers interpreted the action as a straightforward labor dispute over wages and conditions. The...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/u/v/j/wave-hill-walk-off-wp/quvj-wave-hill-walk-off-the-day-they-walked.mp3 0:06 3 full Wave Hill Walk-Off: A Handful of Soil https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off/ The seven-year standoff attracted allies from across Australian society: the North Australian Workers' Union, the Communist Party of Australia, church groups, civil rights organizations, and writer Frank Hardy, who published The Unlucky Australians in 1968 to bring national atten...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/u/v/j/wave-hill-walk-off-wp/quvj-wave-hill-walk-off-a-handful-of-soil.mp3 0:06 4 full Wave Hill Walk-Off: From Little Things Big Things Grow https://qualla.com/wave-hill-walk-off/ The Wave Hill walk-off did not end with the handover ceremony. The Whitlam government drafted the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill before its dismissal in 1975, and the subsequent Fraser government passed the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, the first legislation in Australia allowing...

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