The Western Australian Aboriginal Pastoral Workers Strike Of 1946

The Western Australian Aboriginal Pastoral Workers Strike Of 1946 Shane Howard, 2010   In 1942, on the western side of the Pilbara, Western Australia, a great meeting of the Aboriginal desert law men was organised by Dooley Bin Bin and Clancey McKenna. Over 200 people attended, some travelling thousands of kilometres, from as far away as Halls Creek, Darwin and Alice Springs. There, at Skull Springs, they sat in council to discuss the shameful conditions that their people were living...

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