What Do We Want?: A Political History of Aboriginal Land Rights in New South Wales by Heidi Norman

Author:Heidi Norman [Norman, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459695085
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Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: 2015-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ownership of Mutawintji National Park … began as an integral part of political actions for land rights in a statewide campaign from the mid-1970s to gain land rights legislation … In the western areas, a series of bush meetings were held by Wiimpatja, the local Aboriginal people, [where] … Aboriginal people got out of towns, away from halls and formal meeting structures … camped out, had large wide-ranging meetings in the bush itself, caught, gathered and ate bush tucker and at night they sat around campfires.

The conversations shared amongst the older people at these gatherings about working life on the former stations and traditional stories were ‘a liberating and decolonising experience’ which ‘allowed Wiimpatja to clarify their collective aspirations for the all-too-often vague call for ‘land rights now’.58

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