Join us for a powerful presentation on the life of Don McLeod, a white man and a miner who became a key ally to Aboriginal pastoral workers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. In the 1940s, McLeod encouraged and supported nearly 800 Aboriginal workers to undertake what became Australia’s longest industrial strike (1946–1949), led by senior Lawmen from coastal and desert tribes.

McLeod went on to live and work alongside the strikers, helping them establish alluvial mining operations, gain economic independence, purchase their own station, and build culturally grounded schools, health services, and housing. He lived with the community until he died in 1999.

The seminar will be presented by Dr Jan Richardson, who, together with her late husband Stan Davey, worked with Don McLeod and the Nyangumarta people in 1969. Their later community development work across the Kimberley informed Jan’s PhD research and now she will publish his biography this year.

Find out more and register here: http://go.cdu.edu.au/fr4a