Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people’s famous Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966 and questions the meanings commonly attributed to the return of their land by Gough Whitlam in 1975. Written with a sensitive, candid and perceptive hand, A Handful of Sand reveals the path Vincent Lingiari and other Gurindji elders took to achieve their land rights victory, and how their struggles in fact began, rather than ended, with Whitlam’s handback. Not since Frank Hardy’s The Unlucky Australians (1968) have the expe...
Brendan Ferguson explores the Martu people’s deep connection to country through a Social Return on I...
The Yirrkala Film Project records many aspects of the life of the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem ...
In 2004 the Australian federal government abolished the national indigenous representative structure...
During the 1960s author Frank Hardy played an important role in the Wave Hill Walk Off – when a grou...
Hundreds turned out to mark the 45th year since the Gurindji stockmen marched out of Wave Hill Stati...
Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying information.; Part of the Australian Information S...
The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station...
In 1854, William Westgarth was sent by the Government of Victoria to investigate the causes of the E...
On the 26th January 1788, Australia was invaded by the British and a convict colony was established....
Increasingly in Australia the responsibility to manage large tracts of land is being handed back to ...
It is commonly understood that the federal policy of Aboriginal self-determination was responsible f...
© 2010 Dr. Fiona Lee DavisThis thesis presents the New South Wales Aboriginal station, Cummeragunja,...
In Australia, the issue of national reconciliation is registered in and through the Indigenous strug...
The legal outcomes the Gunditjmara achieved in the 1980s are often overlooked in the history of lan...
Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying information.; Part of the Australian Information S...
Brendan Ferguson explores the Martu people’s deep connection to country through a Social Return on I...
The Yirrkala Film Project records many aspects of the life of the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem ...
In 2004 the Australian federal government abolished the national indigenous representative structure...
During the 1960s author Frank Hardy played an important role in the Wave Hill Walk Off – when a grou...
Hundreds turned out to mark the 45th year since the Gurindji stockmen marched out of Wave Hill Stati...
Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying information.; Part of the Australian Information S...
The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station...
In 1854, William Westgarth was sent by the Government of Victoria to investigate the causes of the E...
On the 26th January 1788, Australia was invaded by the British and a convict colony was established....
Increasingly in Australia the responsibility to manage large tracts of land is being handed back to ...
It is commonly understood that the federal policy of Aboriginal self-determination was responsible f...
© 2010 Dr. Fiona Lee DavisThis thesis presents the New South Wales Aboriginal station, Cummeragunja,...
In Australia, the issue of national reconciliation is registered in and through the Indigenous strug...
The legal outcomes the Gunditjmara achieved in the 1980s are often overlooked in the history of lan...
Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying information.; Part of the Australian Information S...
Brendan Ferguson explores the Martu people’s deep connection to country through a Social Return on I...
The Yirrkala Film Project records many aspects of the life of the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem ...
In 2004 the Australian federal government abolished the national indigenous representative structure...