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How the west was lost: the story of the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike

Australia, 1987
film

The story of the 1946 Aboriginal Pastoral Workers’ Strike. Eight hundred aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north west of Weste..

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