More than dirt

The team at Karul Projects talk about the iconic moment when Gough Whitlam poured a handful of dirt into Vincent Lingiari's hand on 16 August 1975, symbolising the legal transfer of Wave Hill station back to the Gurindji people. The Gurindji became the first Aboriginal community to have land returned to them by the Commonwealth Government and would be a turning point - the start of the Aboriginal land rights movement for the rest of Indigenous Australia. The movement continues today, and is explored in Karul's production of SILENCE.