It’s Not the Money It’s the Land : Aboriginal Stockmen and the Equal Wages Case

AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal

 In 1965, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission decided that Aboriginal workers should be paid the Full Award for their work on cattle stations. This book is the story of the devastating effect that this decision had on the indigenous workers and the way it destroyed their relations with pastoralists.

• 192 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. Bibliography: p. 190. #011023
• First Edition. Signed by Author. (Name on fpd)
• Equal pay for equal work — Australia
• Wages — Australia
• Aboriginal Australians — Employment
• Occupations – Pastoral industry workers
• Employment – Conditions – Industrial relations – Awards and enterprise bargaining
• Employment – Conditions – Industrial relations – Trade unions
• Race relations – Racial discrimination – Employment
• Land rights
• Employment – Conditions – Industrial relations – Industrial disputes
• Employment – Conditions – Wages – Equal wages
• Employment – Discrimination
• Northern Territory (NT)
• Western Australia (WA)