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Remembering the 1946 Pilbara strike, Australia’s longest, that paved the way for Indigenous rights – ABC News

When West Australian sheep station workers went on strike for fair wages and decent conditions, they wrote one of the most important chapters in Australia’s history….

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The rusting car bodies that Banjima man Marshall Smith sits among at Mingullatharndo community are a daily reminder of one of the most significant human rights struggles for Indigenous people in Australian history.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died.
“Some days I look at these trucks and think, how did they do it? “Mr Smith said.
“They were survivors, and this is the proof.”
What Mr Smith is referring…

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