Air 2s From Little Things Big Things Grow! Darwin Australia | Darwin Australia | 5K [2022]

[QldKing]

Gather 'round people,
I'll tell you a story
An eight year long story of power and pride

 

[Squidinc]

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This is a large mural in Darwin and is based on the story of the Gurindji Strike (also known as the Wave Hill walk-off) and in particular the role of the Gurindji leader of the strikers, Vincent Lingiari. It describes how the Gurindjis' claim to their traditional lands back from the cattle station on which they worked (owned by UK company Vesteys and called Wave Hill Station) sparked the Indigenous land rights movement. The nine-year protest won public support and eventually led to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, which provides the basis upon which Aboriginal Australian people in the Northern Territory can claim rights to land based on traditional occupation (native title), and the power of veto over mining and development on those lands. On 16 August 1975, a small part of their land was handed back to the Gurindji people on a 30-year-lease by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, a symbolic and powerful moment in history,
"From Little Things Big Things Grow" is a protest song recorded by Australian artists Paul Kelly & The Messengers and by Kev Carmody