In August 1966, Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off the job on the vast Vesteys cattle station at Wave Hill in the Northern Territory, sparking the Aboriginal land rights movement. Aboriginal leaders of the movement included Vincent Lingiari (Gurindji), and Nubuluna, also called Dexter Daniels (Numamurdirdi / Yugul Mangi). Nubuluna had traveled to Kenya in 1964 to study their move for independence and this trip deeply influenced him and fed into a strong vision for Aboriginal equality and sovereignty. Although initially considered just a workers struggle for better conditions against the oppressive British Vestey's company, their demands quickly came to include access to their land which had been illegally seized by the British colonial authorities and companies. The Gurindji petition stated, ‘we feel that morally the land is ours and should be returned to us’. The walk-off lasted seven years and ended with a land 'handover' as well as being a key moment in the movement for Aboriginal land rights in Australia. It is considered one of the main events leading to the passing of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, legislation which was the basis on which Indigenous Australians could apply for freehold title to traditional lands in the Northern Territory.