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    A Natural Battleground: The fight to establish a rail heritage centre at Western Australia's Midland Railway Workshops
    A Natural Battleground: The fight to establish a rail heritage centre at Western Australia's Midland Railway Workshops
    A Natural Battleground: The fight to establish a rail heritage centre at Western Australia's Midland Railway Workshops
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    A Natural Battleground: The fight to establish a rail heritage centre at Western Australia's Midland Railway Workshops

    By Bobbie Oliver

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    When the Government Railway Workshops at Midland closed on 4 March 1994, Western Australia lost a major trainer and employer of skilled tradespeople and much of its heavy industry.  Former workers feared that their history of industrial achievements on the factory floor and through union action would also be lost. Despite expending consider

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInterventions Inc
    Release dateJun 30, 2021
    ISBN9780645183917
    A Natural Battleground: The fight to establish a rail heritage centre at Western Australia's Midland Railway Workshops
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    Bobbie Oliver

    Bobbie Oliver is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her research interests include the labour movement and anti-war protest. Related publications include Peacemongers: Conscientious objectors to military service in Australia, 1911 to 1945 (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997) and other works on the Vietnam War.

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