Vincent Lingiari and the Wave Hill Walkout

In 1966, Gurindji elder Vincent Lingiari led his people in a walkout off Wave Hill cattle station. The station was built on traditional Gurindji land, but the Gurindji people were treated like slaves and paid little. Nine years after the walkout, the Gurindji people won back their land and control of their lives. The Wave Hill walkout marks the beginning of the Indigenous land rights movement.
Vincent Lingiari and the Wave Hill Walkout is a pivotal story in Australia’s history. This book brings this intriguing story alive with a highly visual presentation that will engage students.
It is part of a fascinating series for middle-upper primary that tells the stories of some momentous times in our history. The intriguing stories offer context and explain the significance of these events to Australia’s development as a nation. The approach promotes critical thinking and analysis with an emphasis on causes and effects, key personalities, and the long-term outcomes for Australian society.

Key features

a variety of text types eg profiles, viewpoints and debates, historical quotations, letters, newspaper articles quotations.
timelines, maps, annotated photographs and illustrations
text-boxes provide short snippets of information for clarity

Graphic-style presentation is employed alongside conventional presentation to convey details that text alone cannot convey, and to show different viewpoints simultaneously

Contents:
Stories from Australia’s history
Vincent Lingiari and the Wave Hill walkout
The big picture
Key people
The strike
Viewpoints
A fight for land rights
What happened next?
The effects of the Wave Hill walkout
What do you think?
Find out more
Glossary
Index