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1946 Pilbara strike

Index 1946 Pilbara strike

The 1946 Pilbara strike was a landmark strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions. [1]

36 relations: Aboriginal title, Australian labour movement, Australian Workers' Union, Barrow Creek, Northern Territory, Bonner, Australian Capital Territory, British Empire Medal, Broome, Western Australia, Canberra, Chain (unit), Commonwealth Law Reports, Communist Party of Australia, Cultural rights, Derby, Western Australia, Donald Stuart (novelist), Dorothy Hewett, High Court of Australia, Human rights, Indigenous Australians, Kimberley (Western Australia), Labour council, List of massacres of Indigenous Australians, Marble Bar, Western Australia, Maritime Union of Australia, National Film and Sound Archive, Nullagine, Western Australia, Oombulgurri Community, Western Australia, Pilbara, Port Hedland, Western Australia, Roy Bailey (folk singer), Royal Commission, Station (Australian agriculture), Strike action, The Age, Western Australia, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Aboriginal title

Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty under settler colonialism.

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Australian labour movement

The Australian labour movement has its origins in the early 19th century and includes both trade unions and political activity.

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Australian Workers' Union

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions.

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Barrow Creek, Northern Territory

Barrow Creek is a very small town, with a current population of 11, in the southern Northern Territory of Australia.

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Bonner, Australian Capital Territory

Bonner is a suburb in the district of Gungahlin in Canberra in Australia.

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British Empire Medal

The British Empire Medal (formally British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown.

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Broome, Western Australia

Broome is a coastal, pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Chain (unit)

A chain is a unit of length that measures 66 feet, 22 yards, 100 links,or 4 rods (20.1168 m).

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Commonwealth Law Reports

The Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) are the authorised reports of decisions of the High Court of Australia.

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Communist Party of Australia

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991.

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Cultural rights

The cultural rights movement has provoked attention to protect the rights of groups of people, or their culture, in similar fashion to the manner in which the human rights movement has brought attention to the needs of individuals throughout the world.

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Derby, Western Australia

Derby is a town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Donald Stuart (novelist)

Donald Stuart (13 September 1913 – 25 August 1983) was an Australian novelist whose works include stories with Aboriginal backgrounds, and a series recounting his experience as a prisoner of war in Burma in World War II.

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Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Labour council

A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area.

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List of massacres of Indigenous Australians

Groups of Aboriginals were killed on occasions in retaliation between the start of the British colonisation of Australia in 1788 up to the 1920s.

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Marble Bar, Western Australia

Marble Bar is a town and rock formation in the Pilbara region of north-western Western Australia.

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Maritime Union of Australia

The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) covers waterside workers, seafarers, port workers, professional divers, and office workers associated with Australian ports.

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of copies of film, television, sound, and radio audiovisual materials and related items.

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Nullagine, Western Australia

Nullagin is an old goldrush town in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

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Oombulgurri Community, Western Australia

Oombulgurri, also written as Umbulgara, was an Aboriginal community in the eastern Kimberley, northwest of Wyndham.

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Pilbara

The Pilbara is a large, dry, thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia.

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Port Hedland, Western Australia

Port Hedland (Kariyarra: Marapikurrinya) is the second largest town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with an urban population of almost 14,000 as at the 2016 Census including the satellite town of South Hedland, 18 km away.

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Roy Bailey (folk singer)

Roy Bailey (born 20 October 1935, London), is an English socialist folk singer.

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Royal Commission

A Royal Commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.

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Station (Australian agriculture)

In Australia, a station is a large landholding used for producing livestock, predominantly cattle or sheep, that need an extensive range of grazing land.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (PBA) is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Pilbara_strike

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