Wentworth, William Charles 48, 63, 89
Western Australia 3 n7, 21, 24, 29, 30, 31, 56
n46, 108, 126, 157, 176, 177, 178, 235,
241, 258, 267, 271
Westralian Farmers’Co-Operative Ltd 260
wheat industry 230, 231, 237, 241, 246–8,
252, 258
bulk handling 248, 249, 256–9, 261
‘fair average quality’249, 258, 259
grading of 258
Wheat Growers Union 237
White Australia policy 7, 51, 102, 121,
232, 237
Whitlam, Gough 77, 193, 276, 286
Wilkins, William 69–70, 72
wool 26, 49, 58, 173, 247
see alsoshearers
working hours and working week
Eight-hour day 230
forty-hour week 211
World Bank 189
World Series Cricket 213, 221 n15Index