How the West Was Lost

1987
1h 12m

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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 ... Read allOn 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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- David Noakes
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- David Noakes
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Dialogues are in Njangamarda, Wanmun, Injibandi and English dialogue, English subtitles.

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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.