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• History of people's struggles (Australia)

  Australia: How the Howard government set up its bruising 1998 waterfront union showdown

  30 January 2019, by DAVIES Anne

  During 1996 and 1997, the Howard government was readying for one of the most bruising industrial relations battles in Australia’s history: the 1998 stoush with the Maritime Union of Australia.
  The entire workforce of Patrick Stevedores was sacked, a new workforce of mainly ex-military men was (…)

• History of people's struggles (Australia)

  From the 1850s on: Radical Chinese labour in Australian history

  1 December 2015, by WARD Liam

  Flick through any mainstream book on Australian history and chances are you’ll find some version of the phrase “cheap Chinese labour”. Historians usually employ it to explain the alleged centrality of the organised working class in establishing racist anti-Chinese immigration laws, particularly (…)