In a lengthy correspondence between 1944 and 1946, Don McLeod told the anthropologist A.P. Elkin of his plans to launch economic ventures that would liberate the Aboriginal people from the oppression they were suffering in the pastoral industry and help make them independent.

McLeod Plans to Launch Economic Ventures for Aboriginal Independence
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Don McLeod to A.P. Elkin, 18 October 1944, A.P. Elkin Papers, University of Sydney Archives, MSS P130/12, Box 71, Folder 189, and Don McLeod to A.P. Elkin, 26 December 1944, A.P. Elkin Papers, University of Sydney Archives, MSS P130/12, Box 76, Folder 262.

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Don McLeod Writes to A.P. Elkin

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Prior to the strike, Don McLeod apparently wrote voluminous letters to the writer and Australian Communist Party member Katherine Susannah Prichard who lived in Perth (though these do not seem to have survived) as well as long letters to the anthropologist A.P. Elkin on the other side of the continent (which have survived).