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en-wikipedia-org-5533		Wave Hill walk-off - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5783	630	71	The Gurindji, an Aboriginal Australian people, had lived on their traditional land in the Victoria River area for tens of thousands of years.[1] These lands cover approximately 3,250 square kilometres (1,250 sq mi) of what is now the Northern Territory. On 23 August 1966, led by Lingiari, about 200 workers (stockmen and domestic servants) and their families walked off Wave Hill and began their ten-year strike for better pay and conditions and land rights.[8][1] Lingiari led the Gurindji, as well as Ngarinman, Bilinara, Warlpiri and Mudbara workers.[14] This was a symbolic moment in the land rights movement in Australia for Indigenous Australians, although only an initial step towards the final land handback; it was only a 30-year pastoral lease over a very small area.[14] Whitlam poured a handful of soil through Lingiari's fingers addressed him and the Gurindji people, saying:[4][1]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5533.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5533.txt