Talk:Gurindji strike

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[edit] 40 year anniversary

I think it would be worth a section reflecting on the enduring importance of this episode. See eg. A history consigned to dust, Celebrating the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off. pfctdayelise (translate?) 09:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Pfctdayelise: Go crazy! Put it in!

[edit] NPOV and references

I am concerned that the article does not appear to be written sufficiently neutrally. It is just a feeling but there are some sentences like However, the tide of public opinion was beginning to turn in Australia. and Cabinet refused to even discuss the issue. plus Vincent Lingiari confronted the vast economic and political forces arrayed against him and his people. It is using emotive language. I have prompted for more references - preferably in-line references.Such language should either be attributed quotes or phrased differently. --Golden Wattle talk 19:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. It'd be fine as a polemical article, but per WP:NPOV it shouldn't be so obvious where the authors' sympathies lie. Tearlach 11:12, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Actually, although references would be good, is there any reason to believe that an alternative viewpoint with sufficient relevance exists? The sections sampled seem like pretty non-contentious statements of fact to me. For instance, there were undoubtably vast economic and political forces arrayed against the gurindji. And the language isn't really emotive, the only adjectives used are vast, political and economic. I think Tearlach, like many, may be seeing emotion that isn't in the language because aboriginal land rights is such an emotive and divisive topic. There is no value judgement, explicit or implicit, made by the language Golden Wattle has sampled. 58.168.250.139 06:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)