Handful of Sand
Subtitle: The Gurindji Struggle, after the Walk-Off
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781925377163
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts; Northwest territories, social conditions; Ethnology, australia
Description: Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia herald a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966, and questions the meaning of the return of their land by Gough Whitlam in 1975.