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ANTI-VSU rally Melbourne - part 1
by pc
Thursday April 28, 2005 at 08:51 PM
Something over four thousand turned out for one of the biggest student-based demonstrations
in Melbourne in recent years - colourful Contingents from a range of campuses, supported by trade unionists, especially nteu members...
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Proceedings began as usual with speeches at the State Library, with Martin Kingham pledging support and reminding students that their fight is a common struggle with the trades unions - he called for large student turnout in support of the planned union rally on 30th June.
A noisy march led by amazingly energetic cheerleaders went down Swanston St, along Bourke St to Parliament House, where a small group in blue t-shirts wre stationed behind police lines... The afternoon ended with a concert and food in the Treasury Gardens, with Rod Quantock regaling the crowd by cutting Brendan Nelson down to size...
bleeding heart?
by pc
Thursday April 28, 2005 at 08:51 PM
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a great cheer marked the arrival of the contingent from vca...
other casualties
by pc
Thursday April 28, 2005 at 08:51 PM
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and this group too - I think from Melbourne Uni
on steps of library
by pc
Thursday April 28, 2005 at 08:51 PM
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seen this image before somewhere...
no comment
by pc
Thursday April 28, 2005 at 08:51 PM
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but you get the general drift ...
Martin Kingham
by pc
Thursday April 28, 2005 at 08:51 PM
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"Your cause is our cause"
Grat pics
by union
Friday April 29, 2005 at 08:28 AM
thank you so much for the report & the pix
in solidarity from nteu
classic pix
by eddy current
Friday April 29, 2005 at 02:04 PM
the 'VSU causes lung cancer' pic is gold, gold gold gold gold
brilliant
more pictures
by Brianna
Sunday May 01, 2005 at 11:20 PM
See http://www.livejournal.com/users/pfctdayelise/42686.html
Crowd shots at the State Library, the speaker from CFMEU, Crowd shots up Swanston St, the Libs/police at Parliament, the multi-rider speaker-carrying bike, Rod Quantock.
Let freedom (not the union cash register) ring!
by Clive Jones
Monday May 02, 2005 at 07:59 PM
Remember, all, you will still be allowed to be members of the student union.
You will still be allowed to participate in events organised by the union.
You will still be allowed to pay your union fees.
Nothing is prohibited in these proposals.
It's all about less regulation. Fewer restrictions. Less about telling young people what they have to spend their money on.
It's about FREEDOM to choose whether to support the union or not.
Because the union is like any other organisation. You should not have to pay to join it if you disagree politically with it.
It's not compulsory to go to the football every week. But thousands do because they regard it as value for their hard-earned money. If they consider union services to be worth it, they'll pay for it.
If they regard them as irrelevant to their life at university, they won't.
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