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People acting. The 1946 Pilbara strikers, who walked off the stations on the first of May and stayed out for three years under Dooley Bin Bin, Clancy McKenna and Don McLeod. The Noonkanbah blockade of 1980, where no oil was found and the Yungngora later won native title. Save Ningaloo, Back to Pinjarra Day, the Juukan Gorge hearings, the Yagan repatriation, and Sorry Day.

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  1. - Tom C Edwards 1919 being led to grave in Fremantle Cemetery. He had the largest funeral ever witnessed in Western Australia, after a policeman hit him whilst he was at a protest that turned into the 1919 Fremantle Wharf riot. Tom Edwards died after being struck by police during the Fremantle wharf confrontation of, May 1919, when returned soldiers and non-union labour were used against the lumpers' union. His funeral was one of the largest the port had seen. It is the sharpest surviving image of industrial conflict on the Western Australia waterfront. The photograph was made by the police, not by the people pictured.
  2. - Yagan Statue, Western Australia. A photograph of a bronze status of en:Yagan that stands on en:Heirisson Island, en:Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in en:1984 by Robert Hitchcock. His father Midgegooroo had been caught and executed without trial by a military firing squad earlier that year.
  3. - Yagan Statue 2005. Heirisson Island, Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in 1984 by Robert Hitchcock. Yagan, a Whadjuk Noongar leader, was shot near Guildford on 11 July 1833 by the teenager William Keats, who claimed the bounty. Settlers severed his head.
  4. - Yagan Statue Head. Heirisson Island, Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in 1984 by Robert Hitchcock. The head was taken to London, displayed as a curiosity, and buried at Everton Cemetery in 1964.
  5. - Part One: KLC - Building On Our History. The Kimberley Land Council on building on its own history, part one. The council was formed in the land rights struggles of the late 1970s, of which Noonkanbah was the sharpest episode. It is now the representative body for Kimberley traditional owners.
  6. - Part Two: KLC - Building On Our History. The Kimberley Land Council on building on its own history, part two. The organisation grew out of the same period that produced the Noonkanbah confrontation of 1980. It now runs the Kimberley Ranger Network and negotiates on behalf of member groups.
  7. - Wyola Club protest. Members of the Wyola Club protesting the building's sale to Phil Douglas. Aboriginal people in this state received full voting rights in 1962. The 1967 referendum was about the census and Commonwealth power, not about the vote.
  8. - CHOGM 2011 protest. Bringing Them Home was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997 after 777 submissions, 535 of them from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  9. - WTF Marlene Oostryck Freo Road to Rail rally, Sam Wainwright. Comprehensive legal protection for Aboriginal pastoral workers did not arrive until 1968, twenty-two years after the strike began.
  10. - CHOGM 2011 protestedit. CHOGM 2011, protest that took place on the opening day, an anti nuclear protester photographing a police officer. The photograph was made by the police, not by the people pictured.
  11. - CHOGM protest William Hay-. CHOGM protests on Friday 28 October 2011 in Perth, Western Australia. John Howard refused a formal apology and moved a Motion of Reconciliation on 26 August 1999; Kevin Rudd delivered the National Apology on 13 February 2008, passed unanimously.
  12. - Kimberley gas hub land access deal signed. ABC News reports the signing of a land access deal for a proposed Kimberley gas hub in 2011. The proposal at James Price Point divided traditional owners and was ultimately abandoned. Land access agreements of this kind are the mechanism through which most such disputes are settled or fought.
  13. - Yindjibarndi community fights Pilbara mine. ABC News reports the Yindjibarndi community fighting a Pilbara mine in 2011. The dispute over the Solomon Hub operation continued through the courts for more than a decade. It ended with a Federal Court compensation award in the Yindjibarndi people's favour.
  14. - Yindjibarndi protest at Fortescue Metals Group AGM. Yindjibarndi people protest at a Fortescue Metals Group annual general meeting in 2011. Taking the dispute to the company's shareholders was one strand of a campaign that also ran through the Federal Court. The litigation concluded in the Yindjibarndi people's favour.
  15. - Anne Poelina: My Story. Anne Poelina tells her own story. She is a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the Martuwarra / Fitzroy River in the Kimberley. First-person accounts of this kind are the counterweight to a documentary record written largely by institutions.
  16. - Noongar groups ready to fight South West Native title buy out. ABC News reports Noongar groups preparing to contest the South West native title arrangement in 2012. Litigation and appeals followed the initial agreement. The Federal Court upheld registration of the six agreements in December 2019.
  17. - Parliament House 13 06 12. People on steps of Parliament House, w:Perth, Western Australia, during protest about w:Perth waterfont development. A joint select committee of the UK Parliament refused the secession petition in, November 1935, ruling that the Statute of Westminster 1931 left Westminster unable to act.
  18. - Parliament House Perth, Western Australia 13 06 12. Banner on side of rented vehicle, Parliament House, w:Perth, Western Australia during protest about w:Perth waterfront development. On 8 April 1933 the state voted 66.23 percent to leave the federation, on a turnout of 91.6 percent, and on the same day threw out the government that had put the question.
  19. - Barnett 13 06 12. Premier of Western Australia, w:Colin Barnett, in the crowd, listening to speakers against the current w:Perth waterfront development on the steps of Parliament House, Perth, Western Australia, 13th, June 2012.
  20. - Parliament House protest speaker. W:Perth waterfont development protest speaker at Parliament House, w:Perth, Western Australia 13 06 12. Bringing Them Home was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997 after 777 submissions, 535 of them from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  21. - Narelda Jacobs - National Sorry Day Australia. Noongar Journalist Narelda Jacobs follows on from her father Cedric Jacobs' speech at National Sorry Day 2013 in Perth, Western Australia. The banner behind her reads "SORRY TODAY". Bringing Them Home was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997 after 777 submissions, including 535 from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It characterised the forced separation policies as genocide.
  22. - The 1946 Strike - rebels of the Pilbara. The Museum of Australian Democracy on the 1946 strike and the rebels of the Pilbara. About 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off stations from 1 May 1946, led by Dooley Bin Bin, Clancy McKenna and Don McLeod. The action ran until August 1949 and is described as the longest industrial action in Australian history, a claim that rests on limited sourcing and should be attributed.
  23. - Noongar Native Title Settlement Bulletin. A South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council bulletin on the Noongar native title settlement. The Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016 formally recognises Noongar ownership, and its title carries the Noongar words for past, present and future. The Federal Court upheld registration of the six agreements on 19 December 2019.
  24. - Landmark recognition for Noongar people. NITV reports landmark recognition for Noongar people. The Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016 gave that recognition statutory form. Noongar is the spelling used by SWALSC and by the Act, alongside variants including Nyoongar, Nyungar and Nyungah.
  25. - Celebration for Noongar people. NITV films celebration among Noongar people following a native title milestone. The agreement covers around 200,000 square kilometres of the state's south west. It has been described, as of 2020, as the largest native title settlement in Australian history.
  26. - Carol Pettersen: Noongar Recognition Bill and Noongar Native Title Settlement. Carol Pettersen speaks for the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council on the Noongar Recognition Bill and the native title settlement. The settlement took effect from 2020 after the Federal Court upheld registration of the agreements in December 2019. This archive does not caption a dollar value for it, because that figure could not be verified.
  27. - Grandmother march against new Stolen Generation. A grandmothers' march against what the marchers describe as a new Stolen Generation. Contemporary child removal rates are the ground on which the historical policies are argued about now. The Bringing Them Home report characterised the earlier forced separation policies as genocide, a characterisation that was and remains disputed.
  28. - NO SURRENDER – RALLY AGAINST THE NOONGAR NATIVE TITLE DEAL. NITV reports a rally against the Noongar native title deal under the banner No Surrender. Acceptance of the settlement required surrendering native title claims in exchange for the agreements, and a section of the Noongar community opposed that trade. Naming the opposition is part of recording that agreement honestly.
  29. - #stolengeneration rally in Perth joins the #sorryday 'celebrations'. A Sorry Day rally in Perth on the anniversary of the tabling of Bringing Them Home. The report was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997. Prime Minister John Howard declined to make a formal apology, moving a Motion of Reconciliation on 26 August 1999 instead.
  30. - Opinions divided on $ 1.3 bn Noongar native title deal. NITV reports opinion divided over the Noongar native title deal. The agreement was contested within the Noongar community as well as negotiated with the state. This archive records the division rather than presenting the outcome as unanimous.
  31. - Roe 8 221115-107. Protest against the Roe 8 / Perth Freight link proposal. Campaigns against gas processing at James Price Point and against the Roe 8 road through the Beeliar wetlands both turned on Aboriginal heritage and on Country the state had already zoned for development.
  32. - Banjima Native Title Agreement signing. The signing of the Banjima native title agreement, filmed by BHP. The Banjima are the traditional owners of the Wittenoom area, where a contaminated site of 46,840 hectares sits on their Country and cannot be used. In February 2026 the Banjima Native Title Aboriginal Corporation filed a Federal Court compensation claim seeking remediation estimated at over 1.5 billion Australian dollars, and that matter is unresolved.
  33. - Seat dedicated to Clarrie Isaacs at Goonininup. Park bench painted in colours of the Aboriginal flag - red, yellow and black. Symbolises Aboriginal traditional owners and protest over the construction of the development located at this site - the Old Swan Brewery from 1988-1992. Goonininup, at the foot of Mount Eliza, is a Whadjuk Noongar site associated with the Wagyl and was the subject of a long campaign over the old Swan Brewery buildings.
  34. - Season 5 Episode 4 Noongar Native Title Settlement. Noongar Dandjoo, a Noongar-produced program, on the Noongar native title settlement. The settlement has also been described as Australia's first treaty. Opinion among Noongar people was divided about whether to accept it.
  35. - The Point: Season 4, Episode 1 - Stolen Generations Records. NITV's The Point examines access to Stolen Generations records. Bringing Them Home recommended funding so that Aboriginal organisations could document removal histories, and record access remains a live issue for survivors and descendants. The report was tabled on 26 May 1997.
  36. - Aboriginal leaders celebrate 40 years since they looked down on miners in the Noonkanbah dispute. Aboriginal leaders mark forty years since the confrontation at Noonkanbah. Premier Sir Charles Court authorised the drilling convoy that forced through the community's picket lines in August 1980. No oil was found, and the Yungngora won native title over Noonkanbah in April 2007.
  37. - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike. An account of the Pilbara Aboriginal strike from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Forty strikers were arrested at gunpoint in 1949. The strike is the strongest counter to any account in which Aboriginal people appear only as the subjects of policy rather than as people acting.
  38. - John Watson Land Rights Noonkanbah. John Watson speaks on land rights and Noonkanbah, published by the Kimberley Land Council. The Yungngora community had walked off Noonkanbah Station in 1971 over pay and conditions, and the Aboriginal Land Fund purchased the station for them in 1976. On 7 August 1980 a convoy of 45 drilling rigs and trucks left Perth under police protection to drill on the station against the community's opposition.
  39. - Global climate strike Perth 200919. Students Global Climate Strike, Perth Western Australia 2019. The 1946 Pilbara strike, led by Dooley Bin Bin and Clancy McKenna with Don McLeod, was the first Aboriginal-led industrial action after colonisation and ran from 1 May 1946 to, August 1949.
  40. - Perth. 69.7 percent yes on conscription in 1916 and 64.4 percent in 1917, in both referendums the nation as a whole defeated.
  41. - Perth climate crisis rally. In Forrest Place, Perth, Western Australia. John Howard refused a formal apology and moved a Motion of Reconciliation on 26 August 1999; Kevin Rudd delivered the National Apology on 13 February 2008, passed unanimously.
  42. - Quokka placard at Perth climate rally. The text in this image should be transcribed and included in the description on this page. Replace this template with after transcription. See also Converting from image formats to text (optical character recognition). All state parliaments issued apologies between 1997 and 2001.
  43. - Climate rally sitting on William Street. One of a few points at which the march sat down for five or ten minutes. Edith Cowan was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1920, the first woman in any Australian parliament.
  44. - High Court Rejects Fortescue Metals Group Appeal over Native Title of Yindjibarndi People. A report on the High Court rejecting a Fortescue Metals Group appeal over Yindjibarndi native title. The rejection left the Yindjibarndi determination standing. Compensation was decided separately in the Federal Court.
  45. - Destruction of Juukan Gorge Inquiry | Committees. The Australian House of Representatives records proceedings of the inquiry into the destruction of Juukan Gorge. Artefacts recovered before the blast included grindstones and a 4,000-year-old length of braided human hair whose DNA confirmed direct ancestry to living PKKP people. The inquiry's interim report, Never Again, was published in December 2020.
  46. - Rio Tinto did not tell traditional owners alternatives to save sacred sites | SBS News. SBS News reports that Rio Tinto did not tell the traditional owners about alternatives that would have saved the Juukan Gorge shelters. The blasts were authorised by ministerial consent granted in 2013 under Section 18 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972, an Act with no mechanism for reconsidering a consent in light of later findings. That absence is the structural failure at the centre of the case.
  47. - Traditional owner Anthony McLarty on why the Fitzroy River needs protecting. Guardian Australia films traditional owner Anthony McLarty on why Martuwarra / Fitzroy River needs protecting. Proposals to draw water from the river for irrigation have been contested by the peoples whose Country it crosses. The Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council was formed by those groups.
  48. - Could Western Australia actually secede from Australia? | ABC News. ABC News In-depth asks whether Western Australia could actually secede. At the referendum of 8 April 1933, 138,653 voters, or 66.23 percent, voted to withdraw from the Commonwealth on a turnout of 91.6 percent. A joint select committee of the United Kingdom Parliament rejected the petition in November 1935 on constitutional grounds rather than on the merits.
  49. - Ask the baby.. 's media organisation. Juluwarlu records language, song and Country under Yindjibarndi control. Material produced by custodians about themselves is this archive's preferred source.
  50. - When the ground is hard Yindjibarndi dance.. Juluwarlu, the Yindjibarndi community's own media organisation, records Yindjibarndi dance in When the Ground is Hard. Juluwarlu holds and publishes the community's cultural archive on its own terms. The organisation is based at Roebourne.
  51. - Wake Up The Snake! Collective wisdom brings nature back to balance | Anne Poelina | TEDxPerth. Anne Poelina speaks at TEDxPerth about collective wisdom and bringing Country back into balance. Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa leader associated with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. The river's protection has been argued in terms of its own standing rather than only its use.
  52. - The Story of Edith Dircksey Cowan. Edith Cowan University tells the story of Edith Dircksey Cowan, elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1920. She was the first woman elected to any Australian parliament. She appears on the Australian fifty dollar note and the university is named for her.
  53. - 1946 Pilbara Strike | Motion | 13 May 2021 | Kyle McGinn MLC. A motion on the 1946 Pilbara strike moved in the Western Australian Legislative Council on 13 May 2021. The parliament that recorded this motion is the successor to the one whose laws the strikers were acting against. Dooley Bin Bin, Clancy McKenna and Don McLeod led the action.
  54. - The 1946 Aboriginal Workers' Strike | Red Dirt Riders. ABC Big Kids explains the 1946 Aboriginal workers' strike for a young audience. Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Pilbara were not paid wages and struck for pay and conditions from 1 May 1946. Comprehensive legal protection for Aboriginal pastoral workers came only in 1968.
  55. - Banjima people are calling on the WA Government to clean up Poison Country | The Point | NITV. NITV reports Banjima people calling on the Western Australian government to clean up what they describe as poison Country. The Banjima are the traditional owners of the Wittenoom area, where a declared contaminated site of 46,840 hectares sits on their Country. In February 2026 their native title corporation filed a Federal Court compensation claim seeking remediation estimated at over 1.5 billion Australian dollars, and that matter is unresolved.
  56. - Standing up for the Mardoowarra - Healing Country. ABC Indigenous films people standing up for the Mardoowarra, also known as Martuwarra / Fitzroy River, as part of Healing Country. The river runs through the Kimberley and is the subject of a long argument over water allocation for irrigation. Traditional owners along its length have organised to protect it.
  57. - Yindjibarndi Nyingart NAIDOC Healing Country festival a major success. Ngaarda Media reports the success of the Yindjibarndi Nyingart NAIDOC Healing Country festival. Ngaarda Media is an Aboriginal-owned broadcaster based in Roebourne in the Pilbara. Community media of this kind records events that mainstream coverage does not reach.
  58. - The Secession of Western Australia and the State of the British Empire, c. 1930 - 35. A Kinder Institute lecture on the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire in the 1930s. The delegation led by former Premier Hal Colebatch presented a 489-page petition, The Case for Secession, at Westminster on 17 December 1934. Westminster ruled that the Statute of Westminster 1931 left it unable to act without the clearly expressed wish of the Australian people as a whole.
  59. - Indigenous History - BTN Special. Behind the News presents a special on Aboriginal history for a school audience. Aboriginal people gained full voting rights in Western Australia in 1962, and the 1967 referendum concerned the census and Commonwealth power rather than the vote. Captioning 1967 as the year Aboriginal people got the vote is the single most common error in Australian history writing.
  60. - The story of the South West Native Title Settlement. The South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council tells the story of the South West Native Title Settlement. SWALSC was established in 2001 to represent Noongar people, and the settlement comprises six Indigenous Land Use Agreements. It has been described, as of 2020, as the largest native title settlement in Australian history, affecting about 30,000 Noongar people across around 200,000 square kilometres.
  61. - Indigenous women’s urgent plea to UN to save Australia's oldest rock art | Yahoo Australia. A report on Aboriginal women taking a plea to the United Nations to protect rock art at Murujuga / Burrup Peninsula. The peninsula was inscribed on the World Heritage list in July 2025 while the gas precinct beside it continued to operate. Custodian campaigners argued the two could not coexist indefinitely.
  62. - A Native Title Journey - The Noongar People of South West WA - Lew Keilar. An account of the native title journey of the Noongar people of the south west. SWALSC was established in 2001 and the recognition Act followed in 2016. The sequence of 2016, 2019 and 2020 is the verified chronology of the agreement.
  63. - Movement - Josie Alec on the threat to Murujuga from Woodside's proposed Scarborough Gas Hub. Josie Alec discusses the threat to Murujuga / Burrup Peninsula from a proposed gas development. Between 1963 and 2006 approximately 900 sites, about 24.4 percent, were destroyed for industrial development, a figure the state government disputed. Custodian objection to further development has been continuous.
  64. - The Time Australia Voted to Split in Half. An account of the 1933 vote in which Western Australia chose to leave the Commonwealth. The referendum was held on the same day as the state election, and the pro-secession Premier James Mitchell lost government to the anti-secession Labor Party and lost his own seat. Voters chose to leave the Commonwealth and simultaneously removed the government that wanted to leave.
  65. - PKKP people visit Juukan Gorge after the blasts. The National Indigenous Times films PKKP people visiting Juukan Gorge after the blasts. Rio Tinto destroyed the rock shelters with explosives on 24 May 2020 to expand the Brockman 4 iron ore mine. The site held evidence of continuous occupation spanning over 46,000 years, uniquely significant for spanning the Last Glacial Maximum.
  66. - Rio Tinto signs remedy agreement for rock disaster with WA traditional owners | Kalkine Media. A report on Rio Tinto signing a remedy agreement with the traditional owners over the Juukan Gorge destruction. A co-management agreement with the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation followed on 22 May 2025. The company is funding a full-size replica of the destroyed shelters at the site.
  67. - On Sacred Ground from Noonkanbah to Juukan Gorge. On Sacred Ground, tracing the line from Noonkanbah in 1980 to Juukan Gorge in 2020. No oil was found at Noonkanbah, so the confrontation produced nothing, and in April 2007 the Yungngora received formal native title recognition over the station. Forty years later Rio Tinto destroyed the Juukan Gorge shelters under a consent that could not be revisited.
  68. - Pro-Palestine protest at Murray Street Mall Perth. About 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off Pilbara stations in 1946 because they were paid in tobacco and rations rather than money. On 14 April 1949 about 40 of them were arrested at gunpoint.
  69. - Federal Court told of 'devastation and destruction' caused on Yindjibarndi country by FMG | ABC News. ABC News reports the Federal Court being told of devastation and destruction caused on Yindjibarndi Country by Fortescue Metals Group. The hearing formed part of the compensation case decided in the Yindjibarndi people's favour. The Yindjibarndi are also one of the five nations represented by the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation.
  70. - Repeal of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act a 'backwards step' | ABC News. ABC News reports the repeal of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 described as a backwards step. The amended 1972 Act that took effect on 15 November 2023 established a statutory Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Committee with majority Aboriginal membership. The sequence of destruction, reform and repeal needs no commentary.
  71. - WA traditional owners shed tears over compensation battle with FMG in landmark case | ABC News. ABC News films Yindjibarndi traditional owners during their compensation case against Fortescue Metals Group. The case was described at the time as a landmark for native title compensation. It concluded with a 150 million dollar award.
  72. - EP07 - On Sacred Ground from Noonkanbah to Juukan Gorge. Dumbartung presents On Sacred Ground, from Noonkanbah to Juukan Gorge. Noonkanbah was the defining Australian land rights confrontation of its decade and the direct ancestor of the argument that resurfaced in the Pilbara forty years later. This archive does not name the sacred site at Noonkanbah or its Dreaming, because that is potentially restricted knowledge.
  73. - $180 million settlement in Aboriginal stolen wages case | ABC News. ABC News reports a 180 million dollar payout in an Aboriginal stolen wages class action. Aboriginal pastoral and domestic workers had wages withheld or controlled by government authorities for much of the twentieth century. The 1946 Pilbara strike was a direct response to that system in Western Australia.
  74. - Yagan Memorial Park, Belhus. He was reburied at Yagan Memorial Park, Belhus, on 10 July 2010, 177 years after his death. Yagan, a Whadjuk Noongar leader, was shot near Guildford on 11 July 1833 by the teenager William Keats, who claimed the bounty. Settlers severed his head.
  75. - PKKP Rio Tinto Co Management Agreement 22 May 2025. The PKKP Aboriginal Corporation announces a co-management agreement with Rio Tinto signed on 22 May 2025, almost five years to the day after the blasts. The Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples had asked for the blasts to be halted five days before they occurred. Rio Tinto is funding a full-size concrete replica of the destroyed shelters at the original site.
  76. - Australia's Unspoken Tragedy The Pinjarra Massacre Storyteller Digital. An account of the Pinjarra massacre of 28 October 1834. Stirling's party of about 25 soldiers, police and settlers attacked a Bindjareb Noongar camp of 60 to 80 people over roughly ninety minutes. Back to Pinjarra Day has been held annually on 28 October since 1991.
  77. - Tears as WA governor apologises for Pinjarra Massacre | ABC NEWS. ABC News reports the Western Australian governor's apology for the Pinjarra massacre, delivered on 28 October 2025. The massacre took place on 28 October 1834, led by Governor James Stirling in person. Estimates of Bindjareb Noongar dead range from about 15 in Stirling's official account to 25 to 30 from George Fletcher Moore, the Advocate-General, who found several mass graves and noted more were killed than officially acknowledged.
  78. - The Pinjarra Massacre Apology and Frontier Violence - BTN High. Behind the News covers the Pinjarra massacre apology and frontier violence. The event was called the Battle of Pinjarra in colonial and mid-twentieth-century accounts until the Shire of Murray formally recognised massacre as the appropriate term in 2006. Bindjareb community members Theo and Roseanne Kearing led the campaign for that recognition.
  79. - Pilbara strike 1946-49. An account of the Pilbara strike of 1946 to 1949 from a labour history perspective. About 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers took part, and 40 were arrested at gunpoint in 1949. The strikers organised their own camps and mining ventures to sustain themselves through the stoppage.
  80. - Mixed emotions as Yindjibarndi people win $150m compensation from Fortescue | ABC News. ABC News reports mixed emotions as the Yindjibarndi people won 150 million dollars in compensation from Fortescue. The Federal Court found the company had built a mine on Yindjibarndi Country without the traditional owners' permission. The litigation ran for well over a decade.
  81. - $150m payout ordered after Fortescue built mine without traditional owners' permission | ABC NEWS. ABC News reports the 150 million dollar payout ordered after Fortescue built a mine without the traditional owners' permission. The Yindjibarndi hold native title over the Country in question. The determination is among the largest native title compensation awards made in Australia.
  82. - 'They couldn't break me': Don McLeod, champion for Aboriginal justice in the Pilbara. A Northern Institute seminar on Don McLeod, who supported the 1946 Pilbara strike alongside its Aboriginal leaders Dooley Bin Bin and Clancy McKenna. McLeod was a white pastoral worker and prospector who worked with the strikers for decades afterwards. The strike ran from 1 May 1946 to August 1949.
  83. - Perth-iran-rally-Jan10-3. A pro-monarchy rally in Perth, Western Australia. Public assembly is one of the few points where policy meets the people it is made about.
  84. - Historical Presentations - No. 7: The Pilbara Strike 1946-1949: A Watershed In Aboriginal History. A long historical presentation on the Pilbara strike of 1946 to 1949, described in its title as a watershed in Aboriginal history. The strike began on 1 May 1946 across pastoral stations in the Pilbara. It is the labour counterpart to the pearling and pastoral records elsewhere in this archive.
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