Episodes

Aboriginal Stolen Wages

12 Nov 2014

Thousands of Aboriginal people had their wages stolen by the Commonwealth in QLD. We caught up with elder Aunty Dawn Daylight for her story of forced removal and indentured labour and Dr. Ros Kidd for some background on the issue.

Aunty Dawn Daylight and Dr. Ros Kidd

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Employers refuse to pass on Equal Pay increases; We Are Union election campaign

5 Nov 2014

Employers fail to pass on wage increases won by the Australian Services Union in the Equal Pay campaign. Victorian unions mobilise to urge Victorian voters to reject the anti-worker agenda of the Napthine Liberal government.

Diana Beaumont, Jack Barry, Mitchell Coe, Luke Hilikari

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The Anarchist & Mr Whitlam

29 Oct 2014

Dr Joe Toscan reviews the Whitlam Government

Dr Joe Toscano

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Royal Commission into union "corruption"; Victorian preschool teachers strike

22 Oct 2014

Dodgy witnesses and flimsy evidence at the Royal Commission into trade union corruption; preschool teachers' strike in Victoria.

Diana Beaumont, Jim Marr, Martel Menz

Sydney Solidarity Network

15 Oct 2014

Autonomous grassroots organising in Sydney respnding to bosses ripping off workers

Jack and Josie from the Sydney Solidarity Network

Shifting Horizons - 1984 Miners Strike

1 Oct 2014

Lynne Beaton's book Shifting Horizons about the 1984 Miners Strike in England

Annie McLoughlin & Lynne Beaton

The politics of "home-grown terror" in Australia

24 Sep 2014

We discuss the political context of latest anti-terror raids, past cases based on entrapment and dubious evidence, and the danger of new legislative norms creeping into the realm of industrial relations and protest policing, with defence lawyer Rob Stary.

Diana Beaumont, Robert Stary

Super Freeze chills nurses plus Vic ambos update

17 Sep 2014

The impact of the freeze on compulsory super contributions and the continuing campaign for workplace justice for Victorian paramedics

Danny Hill and Annie Butler

Unions oppose Fair Work amendments; NZ election report

10 Sep 2014

Ged Kearney, President ACTU, talks about the Abbott government's Fair Work amendment bill. Followed by discussion about labour and class politics in New Zealand/Aotearoa with Joe Carolan, UNITE union organiser and candidate for the MANA party in the upcoming elections.

Diana Beaumont, Ged Kearney, Joe Carolan

Abbott's New WorkChoices

3 Sep 2014

New laws that will throw working conditions back decades in front of the Senate now.

Annie McLoughlin