Pilbara strike
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The Pilbara strike was a landmark strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The strike lasted between 1946 and 1949, and was the longest industrial action in Australian history.[1][2]
The strike has been noted for its significance for the human rights of Aboriginal Australians. The strikers demanded social recognition, payment of fair wages,[3] and an improvement in working conditions.[1][4][5]
Participating in the strike was 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers[1] who walked off the large pastoral stations in the Pilbara on 1 May 1946, and also from employment in the two major towns of Port Hedland and Marble Bar.[2] The strike did not end until August 1949, and even after its conclusion many Aboriginal Australians refused to return to work for white station owners.[2][1][4]
Historians have noted it as the first industrial strike by Aboriginal people since colonisation[1][5] and the longest industrial strikes in Australian history.[1][2] It is regarded as a landmark historical moment in the history of the human rights, cultural rights, and Native title rights of Indigenous Australians.[4][2]