How the West Was Lost

1987
1 Std. 12 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuOn 1 May 1946, 800 Aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north-west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a carefully organized strike that was to last for at ... Alles lesenOn 1 May 1946, 800 Aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north-west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a carefully organized strike that was to last for at least three years, but never officially ended.On 1 May 1946, 800 Aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north-west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a carefully organized strike that was to last for at least three years, but never officially ended.

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Involved

Pilger accused my Grandfather in this documentary of being a slave owner on De Grey Station which we owned since 1912. The Aboriginal Lands Trust with Macleod, a communist, had bought Strelley next door along with Warralong and others and accused my grandfather of only paying the aborigines A£1 6shillings a week. In fact he was paying A£2 13shillings a week over 19million acres across Australia. This rubbish went on for three years across the whole of Australia known as the Aborigines Strike. Eventually Harold cut the wages back to A£1 6shillings and the whole country went back to work. Such was Macleod.

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Forgotten history, deserves to be remembered

Revolves around the 1946 strike by stock workers across the Pilbara (which preceded, by more than 20 years, the more famous walk-off at Wave Hill). Even though they had little support from the Australian political mainstream, the strike was a victory, in the sense that it showed that sheep stations were dependent on _unpaid_ (or barely paid) workers, all of whom were local Aboriginal people. Few, if any, of them ever returned to work on those stations, and the sheep have all but disappeared from the Pilbara.