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c. 1908 AD–c. 1988 AD

Vincent Lingiari

British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency · Indigenous peoples & dispossession · Memory, reparation & restitution

A Gurindji elder and stock worker, Lingiari led the 1966 walk-off from Wave Hill against unequal wages and conditions. He helped transform a labor dispute into a sustained campaign for the return of ancestral lands, symbolized by transfer of the Daguragu leasehold in 1975. His leadership was communal and collaborative: this profile does not reduce the actions of Gurindji families and organizers to one person

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