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This periodical issue is in four titled sections: Different Ways of Knowing, Three Discourses on Rottnest, The Stolen Generations Collection, Book Reviews.
Contents
* Contents derived from the Nedlands,Inner Perth,Perth,Western Australia,:University of Western Australia,2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
On May Day 1946, in the Pilbara district, Western Australia, Aboriginal station hands struck for 30 bob a week and the right to organise. Their leaders, Aboriginal lawmen Dooley Bin Bin and Clancy McKenna and white trade unionist Don Mcleod, were arrested and convicted. Pressure through the Labour movement and the United Nations secured their release.
In 1997, when the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) published its report on the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, the Prime Ministers response was to order an inversitgation of the report. John Herron, the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, conducted the investigation.