Talk:Leslie Arthur Schubert

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The article is incomplete with significant additional material to be added. It has been created because of references to the person in other Wikipages about Mount Goldsworthy, Pardoo Station, Louisa and Bohemia Downs Station, Hamelin Station, and Nookawarra Station.

Schubert has an entry as a notable person in the "The Way 79 who is who : synoptic biographies of Western Australians" by Margaret Armstrong Sacks created for the WAY79 Celebrations in Western Australia as featured at the following Wiki link . Access to copy of this book is being sort and a reference to the entry will be included.

Schubert was a pioneer of aerial mustering in Western Australia and Australia which has superseded the use of indigenous stockmen in the pastoral industry in Australia and has displaced many indigenous people from their lands. The Kununurra Historical Society has secondary information that is being sought.

Schubert well into his retirement returned to the Kimberley on many occasions and assisted and advised indigenous communities on management of Cattle stations and published 3 works on the displacement of the indigenous population from pastoral stations in the Kimberley. Biographical entries in the National Library exist for these works, and will be included in future edits. He also published information about the Stolen Generation included in these works.

Schubert has had several feature articles about his role in Newspapers and periodicals about his marketing proposals and involvement in the sheep and cattle industry as recently as 2011 just one year before his death. Some of these are yet to be re-located and referenced.

Schubert was active in politics as the President of the Curtain Branch of the Liberal Party. In his book he recounts how he advised Malcom Fraser on the action taken during the dismissal of the Whitlam Government. Reference other than in his books will be difficult to obtain.

He was a Shire Councellor on the Gnowangerup Shire Council for a number of years in the early 1960's where he made significant contributions to the development of roads and infrastructure in the Gnowangerup Shire.

His autobiography give a significant incite into the difficulties of being of German Heritage in Australia after the First World War and during the second World War being subject especially after the Second World War to ostracisation and discrimination by the local community, and how he overcame this to become a regular guest at Government House Garden Parties, and host the Governor for dinner on a number of occasions.

As you can see there is a lot more behind this man than what appears in the article as currently published. Secondary references will be sort, however these will take some time. 2400:EC40:1004:ED00:3596:7FAF:4BC0:35A6 (talk) 09:44, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

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