The Gurindji people invite you into the heart of the Northern Territory to experience Freedom Day Festival 2022.
Make the pilgrimage to Gurindji Country for an incredible three days of celebrating and commemorating the legendary Wave Hill Walk-off and the birth of Land Rights.
Freedom Day is an eight-hour drive from Darwin (via Katherine) on all sealed roads. This is a bush camping event and we encourage visitors to simply pay what they can to attend.
Freedom Day is a free entry, free bush-camping event. However, we strongly encourage visitors to register and to contribute what they can afford to attend. Please support our non-profit, community-run event.
If free bush camping isn’t your thing, stay in style! Let us set up a fancy Earth Tent for you (ready to go with mattress & sleeping bag). Only 100 available. Total cost includes four nights (Aug 25, 26, 27, 28).
Our festival wouldn’t take place without the generous support of our partners and sponsors. Each year, we invite organisations and individuals to consider how they can make an impact and engage with our community and festival attendees.
There are many ways to take part in the Gurindji Freedom Day Festival, including sponsoring, donating, volunteering, performing, having a stall and playing sport. We encourage people to roll up their sleeves and help make our event a success.
The Gurindji story is widely known for the legendary Wave Hill Walk-off in the 1960s and 1970s. Lead by Vincent Lingiari, some 200 people bravely walked away from the awful conditions they had endured working on Lord Vestey’s cattle station. What began as a fight for better wages, soon became a bigger battle to rightfully take back their land.
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