Year 6 HASS - Historical Recount Journal: Australia in the 20th Century: Wave Hill Walk-Off 1966

Aboriginal Voting and Land Rights

60th anniversary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander citizens being granted the right to vote in Federal elections (Hamilton, 2022). 

Defining Moments: Indigenous Australians' right to vote - 1962: Indigenous Australians granted the right to vote (National Museum of Australia, 2023). 

The 1967 Referendum (Civics and Citizenship Education, n.d.). 

The right to vote (AIATSIS, 2023). 

The Wave Hill Walk-Off

Celebrating 50 years since Wave Hill (Stewart, n.d.). 

Defining Moments: Wave Hill Walk-Off - 1966: Gurindji strike (or Wave Hill Walk-Off) led by Vincent Lingiari (National Museum of Australia, 2023). 

Indigenous Gurindji win Land Rights in Australia (Wave Hill Walk Off) 1966-1975 (Rivard, 2013). 

Memento of Wave Hill Walk-Off (Croft, 2017).

The Wave Hill 'walk-off' (National Archives of Australia, n.d.). 

Wave Hill 50th anniversary: Timeline of the station walk off and Gurindji land handback (Lawford and Zillman, 2018). 

Electoral milestones for Indigenous Australians (Australian Electoral Commission, 2020). 

Indigenous Suffrage Timeline Queensland (Everyone's Parliament Factsheet 10.5) - PDF document. 

This Day Tonight: Two years after the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off (ABC Education, 2022) - this link provides video footage about the Wave Hill Walk-Off and what happened after that event 2 years later. 

Video: The story of Vincent Lingiari and the Wave Hill walk-off is well documented (ABC News, 2022) - This news story highlights the story of the Gurindji women's role in the early days of the Aboriginal land rights movement has largely gone untold.

Friday essay: the untold story behind the 1966 Wave Hill Walk-Off (Meakins, 2016) - includes primary source material in the form of quotes from interviews, audio recordings and images. 

This Day Tonight: Two years after the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off (ABC Education, 2022) - this link provides video footage about the Wave Hill Walk-Off and what happened after that event 2 years later. 

Wave Hill walk-off (Vincent Lingiari) - audio/video recording about the Wave Hill walk-off. 

The Wave Hill 'walk-off' (National Archives of Australia) - a collection of primary records and sources on the Wave Hill 'walk-off'.

In this film Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly talk about the process of writing the song From Little Things Big Things Grow. From Little Things Big Things Grow tells the story of Vincent Lingiari, a Gurindji stockman who, in 1966, initiated a strike in response to the poor working conditions faced by Gurindji workers, on the Wave Hill Cattle Station.