From Little Things Big Things Grow
Assessment
For this unit you will have some choices over the tasks you use for
your assessment.
On the reverse of this page is an Assessment Menu with three
courses.
You may choose either
 One Main course (your choice of which must be negotiated
with me)
 Or an Entree AND a Dessert
 Or two entrees
 Or two desserts.
You assessment tasks should show:
o Your understanding of the events of the Wave Hill Walk-off
and the return of the ancestral lands of the Gurindji people.
o Your ability to chronologically sequence historical events.
o An understanding of Aboriginal rights (or lack of) in respect to
the events on Wave Hill Station and the strike of the Gurindji
people.
o The different points of view of those involved directly and/or
in-directly in the events of the Wave-Hill walkout.
o The impact that the Wave Hill Walk-out [and the key people
involved] has had on Australians; both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal.
Menu
Appetiser Timeline
Entrée
 Cartoon strip
Retell the events of the Wave Hill Walk-off through a cartoon strip.
You must include some dialogue and have at least 6 cells in your strip

Diary or Journal
Imagine you are a Gurindji Stockmen or the wife of a Gurindji stockmen that has
kept a journal or diary over the time from the walk-off upto or beyond the return
of the land. Write some key entries (at least six) that would appear in your journal
that share the events from the perspectives of a stockman or his wife.
Main
 Newspaper Paper Report
 Television News report
Imagine you are a newspaper or TV reporter covering the ceremony at Wattie
Creek in 1975 and write a newspaper article or film a news story on the handing
back of the Gurindji land and provide background information on the events that
led to that day. Remember to be objective and unbiased.
Dessert
 From Little Things Big Things Grow
Look at the lyrics of Paul Kelly’s song and explain the events that it is talking
about.

A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
Draw three detailed pictures of Wave Hill Cattle Station in 1966, Duguragu in
1967 and Wattie Creek in 1975. What would it look like, who would be there?