Aboriginal Land Issues

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Introduction:
Since the day of Australian settlement, the white law and standard practice has been dominated over the Indigenous people. The original custodians of the land were the Gurindgi people who were encroached by white settlement on their land. In 1914, Aboriginals who were suppressed and the title was given to Vestieys over the 3,250 kilometer square of acreage. Vestiey’s paid poor wages and poor living conditions on the settlement. In contrast, the white wages and conditions were incredibly better and was demeaned to be appropriate for that era. The notion of equality and fairness was very distant.

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In 1930, the Northern Territory government found that the land owners were denying basic human rights such …show more content…
Wave Hill is more than 600 square miles, also called the “Cattle Country”, is one of the largest cattle station in the world. (Abc.net.au, 2012) It is located five hundred miles, South of Darwin and is an ideal cattle raising area for foreign companies supplying processed beef to the British Empire. (Abc.net.au, 2012) Wave Hill starting from a station to becoming a nationally recognizes historical land mark, in 1967 when the Wave Hill walk off occurred.
The actual walk, conducted and lead by Vincent Lingiari (Splash, 2015) ,with his family following, was raise due to their misery and sorrow with the conditions and treatment towards them. The main leader being Vincent Lingiari due to him being a respected tribal elder. The walked was triggered due to talk between the Stockmen who were employed by Vestey’s and Dexter Daniels (Indigenousrights.net.au, 2015). The walk occurring in 1967, was due to the workers reaching their full …show more content…
Through the efforts of prominent Australians such as, Frank Hardy. (Wikipedia, 2015) The cause was taken to a national level. This combined with the 1967 Referendum, pushed the cause for equal rights much further along. Across Australia, the original owners of the land were the Gurindgi people, they always held strong to their belief that they had the right to the land and were the custodians. The Vestiey’s had recognised just how bad the inequality was the Indigenes and offered little to improve it. (Wikipedia, 2015)
About the Vestey’s:
The Vestey’s were a company that processed beef and shipped it refrigerated from South America, New Zealand and Australia to England for consumption (Wikipedia, 2015). The company avoided tax in England and established their headquarters in France to avoid English tax. The company exploited their taxation and good will to their workers as demonstrated by the poor waged and treatment giving to Wave Hill Indigenous occupants at expense for their profit. Overall, the conducted of the Vestey’s was immoral and unfair to those who have given employment and trust to the company and have been short changed.
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