How we remember the past can be influenced more by the nature of our present, or by what has happened in the years since the past in question, than by the past at stake. In the years following the strike, the event seems to have lost much of the significance it had had for Clancy McKenna at the time, so much so that he never spoke to his children about his role in it.

Eileen Rule, Clancy McKenna and Years Since the Strike

Eileen Rule, recorded by Anne Scrimgeour, Port Hedland, 16 July 2018.

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