The Brisbane Trades Hall is a former Trades Hall building in Edward Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a socialist political party in the Australian state of Victoria during the early 20th century.
Charles Thomas Stannage, AM was a prominent Western Australian historian, academic, and Australian rules football player. He edited the major work A New History of Western Australia, which was published in 1981.
John Joseph Gregory McGirr was an Australian politician who served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1913 to 1925, representing the Labor Party. He served as the party's leader for little over a month in 1923, during an internal dispute. He had earlier served as deputy leader and as Minister for Public Health under James Dooley.
Baryulgil is a rural locality in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. The locality is on the Clarence River in the Clarence Valley Council local government area.
Andrew Moore is an Australian historian and academic, a specialist in Australian right-wing politics. He has taught at the University of Sydney, The University of New South Wales, England's University of Lincoln and the University of Western Sydney. His areas of expertise include Twentieth Century Australian History, Irish-Australian history and social history of sport, especially rugby league football. Moore is a leading expert on both the New Guard and the Old Guard.
Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia (FLAIEU) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1910 and 1992. It represented workers employed in hospitality, catering, breweries and alcohol retailing.
Walter Bennett was a politician, journalist and printer in New South Wales, Australia.
The Country Party Association was an early attempt to establish an agrarian party in New South Wales. It was formed in 1913 as a reaction against the Farmers and Settlers Association's policy of co-operation and joint endorsement with the Liberal Reform Party. It elected one member at the 1913 state election, George Briner, but he soon joined the Liberals and the Country Party Association faded.
The Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia (FMMUA) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1899 and 1983. It represented moulders – skilled tradesmen who fabricated the moulds for casting metal products in foundries. In spite of only organising within a single skilled occupation, which kept total membership low, the vital position of moulders in major industries such as mining, manufacturing and the railways, ensured that the union remained industrially powerful with a reputation for being highly militant.
Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-72 is a 2011 book written by Ben Isitt and published by University of Toronto Press.
Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History is a peer-review academic journal of labour history in Australasia. The journal was established in 1962 as the Bulletin of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH), but was renamed Labour History in 1963. The ASSLH published the journal until 2018, after which the Society joined with Liverpool University Press. The journal is edited by Diane Kirkby.
The Confectionery Workers' Union of Australia (CWUA) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1925 and 1992. Until 1986, it was known as the Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia (FCA). Throughout its existence, it represented factory workers in the confectionery industry, including a high proportion of women. It was also notable for its involvement in the landmark Dollar Sweets Dispute.
The Australasian Society of Engineers (ASE) was an Australian trade union active from 1890 to 1991. It was eventually incorporated into the Australian Workers' Union (AWU).
Richard Gordon Hartley, an Australian civil engineer and mining and engineering industry historian, was born in the United Kingdom on 30 June 1939 and died in Perth, Western Australia in 2016. He attained an honours degree from Murdoch University in 1992, with studies focusing on gold mining in the early twentieth century Goldfields of Western Australia. Continuing his examination of developments in this technology, he obtained a PhD from Murdoch in 1998.
Edward Charles Roach (1909–1997), was an Australian trade unionist, long-time leader of the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF) and prominent member of the Communist Party of Australia. He was a key organiser of the 1938 Dalfram dispute, when dock workers, concerned with the occupation of China, refused to load ships destined for Japan with Australian pig-iron, a raw material for munitions. He was twice imprisoned for his industrial activity. As a leader in the WWF during the introduction of containerisation, he was responsible for winning significant improvements in working conditions for those in the Australian stevedoring industry.
Annie Mackenzie Golding was an Australian teacher, suffragette and feminist activist.
Anne Philomena O'Brien is an Australian historian and author who is a professor at the University of New South Wales.
Death in the Haymarket is a 2006 popular history book on the Haymarket affair, written by James Green.
Harry Stein (1919–1994) was an Australian communist, jazz enthusiast and writer. Stein was an active member of the Communist Party of Australia until 1968 and worked as a journalist for the party's newspaper. He also played an important role in the early promotion of jazz music in Australia. The Herald once described Stein as a "jazz-crazed Communist whose chief attribute is his ability to talk fluently on anything, at any place, at any time."
