YANDY

'Yandy' tells the story of the first Aboriginal workers' strike in this nation's history. In 1946, 800 pastoral workers in the vast Pilbara went on strike. A quarter of a century later they eventually gained their own land and station at Yandeyarra, near Port Hedland. This landmark event happened 20 years before cattle workers in the Northern Territory staged the more widely documented Wave Hill strike.

One of the original Pilbara strike leaders, Peter Coppin ('Kangkushot')lived on the land he fought so hard to regain until his death in 2006 aged 86. His experiences and life story have inspired and informed the script. 'Yandy' is a major Australian story that tells of the enormous courage and determination by the strikers - in the face of brutality, starvation, chainings and gaolings - to break their bonds of slavery to the pastoralists.

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