by NRB | 21 Apr 2020 | Non-fiction |
Anne Scrimgeour’s history of the Pilbara Aboriginal Strike recounts a pivotal moment in Australian history when white pastoralists had to start paying their Aboriginal workers. In 1946 Aboriginal workers on the remote sheep stations of the Pilbara walked off the...
by NRB | 21 Sep 2017 | Non-fiction |
The Pilbara is an important book for anyone thinking about the world of work and how it might be shaped in Australia. Bradon Ellem tells us at the outset that his approach will be historical and geographical, that the past does not stay the same, and that the vast...