Walk-off 50 years ago triggered Indigenous land-rights movement

Timmy Vincent, son of Vincent Lingiari, at anniversary celebration Source: AAP

Tuesday 23 August marks 50 years since the day 200 Aboriginal workers walked off a Northern Territory cattle station in protest over exploitative living and wage conditions. The 1966 stand, known as the Wave Hill Walk Off, triggered a land-rights movement that, almost a decade later, led to one of the first cases of returning traditional land to Indigenous Australians.

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