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in April 1966. NAWU's
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Lupngagiari (Captain Major). His advocacy and confidence quickly made Daniels a well-known and controversial figure among NT pastoralists and conservative politicians. In 1967, Daniels was arrested upon his return to his home community on a vagrancy charge. The charge was subsequently shown to
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Indigenous activists from the Roper Mission who went on to become deeply involved in social and political struggles in the Northern Territory. They included the Roberts brothers, Clancy, Jacob and Phillip and Dexter Daniels and his brother Davis. "That's not right" was a
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to study their move for independence and this trip deeply influenced him and fed into a strong vision for
Aboriginal equality and sovereignty. Following this trip, in 1965, he began working as an Aboriginal Organiser of the North Australian Workers' Union.
91:. He was the son of Ukamangara (known as Debra) and Jangridpa (known as Dan) and he was one of seven children. His mother worked at the mission and he attended school there; as policy dictated Daniels was required to live in a dormitory, separate to his parents.
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Aboriginal Land Rights in Sydney and Melbourne. Daniels lobbied for the land rights of his own and neighbouring clans also.
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where he worked at the airport washing planes and then as an orderly at Darwin
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in 1975–76. Land rights over his own country was awarded automatically as an existing
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652:"Wave Hill, Communists and a Bedford two-tonner. An interview with Brian Manning"
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345:. Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
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285:"Biography - Dexter Daniels - Indigenous Australia"
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