Roderick Williams papers regarding Gurindji land rights claim, ca. 1968-1971

MLMSS 9200

fonds

ca. 1968-1971

872596

0.15 metres of textual records (1 box)

Roderick Williams is a poet, singer, actor, shearer and was involved in the Gurindji strike in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

The Gurindji are a group of Aboriginal Australians living in the Northern Territory's Victoria River region. In 1966 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families walked off Wave Hill cattle station (owned by Vesteys) and began a seven-year strike over working conditions and a demand for the return of their tribal land. During the strike the Gurindji established a settlement near by at Wattie Creek. Their land was handed back to them in 1975 when they were granted inalienable freehold title to almost all of Wave Hill Cattle Station.

Two journals, Wattie Creek, 1970.

Two notebooks and loose notes, Wattie Creek, 1970.

Correspondence, 1970-71, undated.

Printed material including: ' Wattie Creek - Present and Future' by Robert & Kaye; 'What Now at Wattie Creek'; 'The Gurindji at Wattie Creek' by Hannah Middleton, 1970; press statement from The 'Save the Gurindji' Committee, 1970; Minutes of 'Save the Gurindji Campaign' Meeting, 28/9/1970; various newsletters, 1970-71; 'The Gurindji Blues', a poem by Ted Egan; newscuttings; various fliers and pamphlets; judgment in the Conciliation & Arbitration Commission re variation of the Cattle Station Industry Award, 1968.

Save the Gurindji campaign Financial Statement and receipts, 1970.

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