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Wave Hill Station (N.T.)
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Dates of existence
1883-
History
Cattle station located near Kalkarindji / Daguragu in the Northern Territory, Australia. The Gurindji peoples are the traditional owners of the land on which the Station is situation. Established in 1883 by Nathaniel Buchanan. Sold to the Vestey Brothers in 1914. Best known as a key location of the Gurindji Strike, also known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, an incident in which 200 Gurindji workers walked off the job in August 1966. Vincent Lingiari was one of the workers. The strike led to negotiations between the newly elected Whitlam government and the Vesteys in 1973, resulting in the Vesteys returning a portion of the land to the Gurindji peoples.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 30-Jan-2025.
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Egan, T. (2012). 'Vincent Lingiari (1919–1988)', Indigenous Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed online 30-Jan-2025.