Don McLeod Don McLeod i(A36647 works by) (a.k.a. D. W. McLeod; Donald William McLeod)
Born: Established: 1908 Meekatharra, Gascoyne - Murchison area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 1999
Gender: Male
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Don McLeod worked in the north west as a well-sinker and contractor but is best known as a champion of the rights of Aboriginal workers to a fair wage and fair conditions of labour. In 1951, he leased land at Cooke's Creek where he had discovered Wolfram and organised a 700-strong aboriginal co-operative to mine the area. In 1984 he published How the West Was Lost : The Native Question in the Development of Western Australia .

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