Shareholders in the Pindan mining company, Perth, 1958

In 1955 Pindan Pty Ltd was established, a company in which all the shareholders were Aboriginal people (Pindan is the name for the red earth of the Pilbara). In 1958 more than two dozen Pindan men went to Perth to fight a defamation case against Stanley Guise Middleton, Commissioner for Native Affairs and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. They were partially successful.