ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

In 1966, led by Vincent Lingiari, the Gurindji and other Indigenous peoples working on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory did something radical: they went on strike. They were responding to maltreatment and intolerable working conditions. Frank Hardy was there. The Unlucky Australians is his retelling of this walk-off, one that began with a request for justice, and ended in the first successful Australian land rights claim-a term Hardy has been credited for inventing in this book, first published in 1968. Some twenty years later, in 1991, Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody released a song about the strike which quickly captured national attention: ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’. Frank Hardy’s children published this edition to mark the 40th anniversary of the walk-off at Wave Hill.

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