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David Noakes

How the West Was Lost

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1987-12-28

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

72 min

Description

The story of the 1946 Aboriginal Pastoral Workers' Strike. Eight hundred aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a strike which lasted more than three years. The strike was more than a demand for better wages and conditions, it was a struggle for basic human rights.

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