sentences:  The Strangways Land Act in 1869 provided for replacing large pastoral runs with closer-settled more intensive farming.A significant proportion of squatters opposed the movement for self-determination by workers that gained impetus in the last decades of the 19th century in Australia.The events of the shearers’ strike of 1891 and the harsh counter-measures by Government and squatters left a bitter legacy that adversely affected class relationships in the ensuing decades.