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The #WaveHill walk-off, also known as the #Gurindji #strike, was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, starting on 23 August 1966 and lasting for seven years. It took place at Wave Hill, a cattle stationin #Kalkarindji (formerly known as Wave Hill), Northern Territory, Australia, led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari.
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Mapping Massacres (3+) https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=708
Truth Telling - Common Ground
https://www.commonground.org.au/article/coniston-massacre -
Slavery, massacre and the fight for community control
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-17/kumanjayi-walker-yuendumu-black-deaths-inquest-take-back-control/105539366 -
(There have been almost 600 First Nations people killed in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, including at least 10 this year. Only one of the 339 recommendations handed down by that commission has been implemented:)
Statistics ?
https://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/deaths-custody-australia -
The #Walpiri man with #disabilities stopped breathing and #died after being held down by plain clothes #officers inside a #supermarket.
https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/56300
#australia #classwar #murder #statism #fascism #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #aboriginal #indigenous #humanrights #acab #AllCopsAreBastards
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The #Walpiri man with #disabilities stopped breathing and #died after being held down by plain clothes #officers inside a #supermarket.
https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/56300
#australia #classwar #murder #statism #fascism #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #aboriginal #indigenous #humanrights #acab #AllCopsAreBastards
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(Note: Predictably NT police released a statement rejecting calls for an independent investigation into the death in custody.
There have been 9 deaths in custody in 2025)