The Pilbara strike of 1946-49 saw Aboriginal people defy the owners of pastoral stations in north-west Western Australia by demanding better wages and conditions. But it was also a fight to win independence from their colonial masters. Paddy Gibson, a Solidarity member and a senior researcher at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, gave this talk recently.
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