History - Australia- Commons Library

How Workers Defeated Anti-Strike Laws in the 1970s

Read an excerpt from the book, Without Bosses: Radical Trade Unionism in the 1970s, about workers retaining the right to strike.

Stories and event about the role of Aboriginal Change Makers in the fight for equality and a more just society for all of us.

Read about the role that women played in unemployed movements during the Depression Years in Australia in this book excerpt by Janey Stone.

Watch this video presentation or read an article about beer strikes and the history of hotel / pub boycotts in Australia in the early 1900s.

Australian examples of actions that intensify impact in terms of ensuring visibility, challenging opponents, and disrupting narratives.

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

How workers at the Nymboida coal mine in NSW resisted mass sackings by taking over and running the mine themselves in 1975.

Lines of Resistance: A Symposium on Media, Arts & Activism that profiles research on the role of media and visual arts in activist movements.

Australian radical historians and activists, Rowan Cahill & Terry Irving, share a selection of books about radical Australian history.

Torres Strait Islander soldiers strike to end discrimination in the army during World War Two.