Friday, April 14, 2023

AN AUSTRALIAN FIRST

 Opening at the Charles Darwin University  Art  Gallery Casuarina Campus, April 19 ,at  6pm , running through to July 15, the exhibition celebrates  the l966 Wave Hill  Walk-off , when Vincent Lingiari AM  led  Gurindji,Mudburra ,Bilinarra, Ngarinyman and Warlpiri peoples on a strike from  Wave Hill Station , in the Victoria River District . It  eventuated in the first historic handback of  lands  to First Nations  Australians in l975, under the Whitlam  ALP  Government , and the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act,1976.