Aug 16, 2026 – 12.29pm
Nineteen eighty-four was a momentous year for Australia. The dollar had just been floated, the banks were deregulated, Medicare came into being, Bob Hawke called an early election and a jar of Vegemite became the first product to be electronically scanned at an Australian supermarket.
And then, in October of that year, an Indigenous family of nine – two mothers with seven children (the women’s husband, the father of the seven children, had died) – walked out of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia.
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