The historic Wave Hill walk-off set the Aboriginal land rights movement in motion. More than 50 years later, Gurindji traditional owners are granted native title over the area.
But they only gained a pastoral lease with grazing rights to part of the station in that year, and land rights to another 3000 square kilometres — which became the Daguragu Land Trust — in 1986.
"I think all of us here today would recognise that this is a particularly special determination of native title," he said."What we're doing is recognising that the Jamangku, Japuwuny, Parlakuna-Parkinykarni and Yilyilyimawu land-holding groups have had interests in this land at least from the time of European settlement, probably for millennia.
He said he hoped some people in the nearby communities of Kalkarindji and Daguragu would use some of their royalties to set up their own enterprises.
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