ByMeredith Burgmann

  • workers sitting on steps outside Opera House

    The 1972 Sydney Opera House Work-In

    Learn about the Sydney Opera House ‘work-in’ carried out by construction workers who expelled management & continued work under workers’ control.

  • a group of men in work clothes covered in coal dust wearing hard hats with miners lamps on the hats

    The Nymboida Coal Mine Takeover, NSW, 1975–1979

    How workers at the Nymboida coal mine in NSW resisted mass sackings by taking over and running the mine themselves in 1975. firstly through an occupation and then via union ownership.

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