Changing values, changing nation - Saint Ignatius' Moodle Community

Resource sheet 5
Fairfax photos Courtesy State Library of Victoria, Pictures Collection.
Reproduced with the permission of copyright owner Mr J Frith
Source 4: Land handed to the Gurindji people, 1975
In May 1975, the Gurindji people were successful in having an area of their own land excised from the Vestey pastoral
lease at Wattie Creek in the Northern Territory. Here Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Gurindji leader Vincent
Lingiari celebrate the handover of the land at Daguragu. In 1986 a claim for recognition of traditional rights made
under the 1976 Land Rights Act was successful and 3000 sq km of their land was transferred to Gurindji people.
Source 5: A cartoon by John Frith, 3 July 1968
John Frith (1906–2000) worked as a cartoonist with
The Bulletin magazine and later became the first daily
cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald. He retired
in 1969 after working for the Melbourne Herald.
In From the rich man’s table, Frith reflects upon
the start of the modern land rights movement,
which saw Gurindji Aboriginal people ‘walk off’
Wave Hill Station in protest over conditions and
their rights to traditional lands. This famous walkoff
was a watershed for the Aboriginal land rights
movement and led to a wholesale and radical
reappraisal of Indigenous rights.
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Later adolescence – Changing values, changing nation