Hoping to see the success of the Pilbara cooperative repeated in other parts of the country, the Council for Aboriginal Rights sought to spread information about the movement as widely as possible. This letter from Andrews to Alfred Nailer Jacobs, an Aboriginal rights activist in Western Australia’s south-west, explains the Council’s interest in and plans for supporting the movement.

Shirley Andrews Explains Council's Support of Strike
Excerpt of Shirley Andrews to Alfred Jacobs, 21 July 1953, Records of the Narrogin Native Welfare Committee, State Library of Western Australia, MS 3797A/58
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Excerpt of Shirley Andrews to Alfred Jacobs, 21 July 1953, Records of the Narrogin Native Welfare Committee, State Library of Western Australia, MS 3797A/58.

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