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BA3521/1: Don McLeod at the 1946 Aboriginal strikers' camp, The Twelve Mile, near Port Hedland, Western Australia.
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BA3521/2: Don McLeod at the 1946 Aboriginal strikers' camp, The Twelve Mile, near Port Hedland, Western Australia.
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BA3521/3: Don McLeod at the 1946 Aboriginal strikers' camp, The Twelve Mile, near Port Hedland, Western Australia.
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BA3521/4: Don McLeod teaching members of the 1946 Aboriginal strikers to make bricks, Western Australia.
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BA3521/5: Possibly Don McLeod teaching members of the 1946 Aboriginal strikers to make bricks, Western Australia.
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BA3521/6: Don McLeod squatting outside his tent, Western Australia, 1969.
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BA3521/7: Don McLeod, 1975.
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Don McLeod assisted the pastoral workers of the Pilbara to organise the first major Aboriginal strike for better wages and conditions in 1946, and then abandoned his own career and joined the strikers, working as an advisor until he died at the age of 90. Photographs taken by Jan Richardson who (with her husband Stan Davey) worked with McLeod and the strikers in 1968/1969.
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