The Vestey affair / Phillip Knightley
- Bib ID:
- 143002
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Knightley, Phillip, 1929-2016
- Description:
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- London : Macdonald, 1981
- 159 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0354047086
- Summary:
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History of the Vestey international financial empire; Ch.11, The Australian End, details the Vestey family's role in the NT pastoral industry since 1914; draws on Bleakley's 1929 Report and the Berndt's 1948 Report to outline conditions of Aborigines on Vestey properties; describes the Wave Hill strike and conditions on Gordon Downs Station in the Kimberleys.
- Subject:
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- Vestey family
- Corporations -- Taxation -- Great Britain
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Land rights - Pastoral industry
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- Employment - Conditions
- Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
- Kundat Djaru / Gordon Downs (WA East Kimberley SE52-10)
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2086 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2016
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1981
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