Wave Hill Strike

State/Territory:
Date/s:

Restrictions protested
against:

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groups:

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Source Question Your answer

1. What is Billy Bunter Jampijinpa describing

Source One: Billy here?
Bunter Jampijinpa,
striker from Wave Hill
Station. 2006.   2. How does this quote help us why the Gurindji
stockmen carried out the Wave Hill Strike?

Source Two: Quotes

from Vincent Lingiari, 3. What do these quotes tell us about Lingiari’s
1966 perspective on the purpose of the Strike?
Source Three:
Gough Whitlam pours 4. What does this event symbolise?
sand into Vincent
Lingiari’s hand,
captured in 1975 by
Mervyn Bishop 5. What was the significance of this event?
Freedom Ride
State/Territory:
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against:

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Source Question Your answer

Source One:
“Country tour in bid 1. What are some of the aims of the Freedom Rides
to aid aboriginals” as explained in this source?
Sydney Herald,
February 1965

Source Two: 2. What are some of the conditions that Curthoys

Extract from a describes in this source?
Freedom Rider’s
reflections

Source Three:
Excerpts from 3. What are some reactions described in these
Freedom Riders’ sources? What can they tell us about the places
reflections – Charles the Freedom Riders visited?
Perkins and Ann 4. Curthoys writes, “the hostility seemed to be
Curthoys directed at us as university student intruders
rather than to the aborigines.”  Why do you think
this might have been the case?