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4. Stolen Wages, Truth Be Told - 3 Brothers Production
On 1 May 1946, around 800 Aboriginal workers walked off more than twenty stations across the Pilbara, using calendars made from jam tin labels to coordinate a strike across thousands of kilometres with no phones and no radios. It became the longest strike in Australian history, running for three years against arrests, chains, and starvation tactics, two decades before the more widely known Wave Hill walk off. This episode looks at Stolen Wages, the government run practice of withholding and mismanaging Aboriginal workers' pay across WA and the rest of the country for most of the twentieth…
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