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Photos of anti-IR rally, Sydney
by Roy Garner
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 03:15 PM
rrgarner@bigpond.net.au 02 9568 1149 268A Flood Street, Leichhardt, Sydney NSW 2040
The following photos of the Sydney rally today were taken with a popular brand-name mobile with a 1.3 megapixel camera feature. Who could have guessed five years ago what is now possible with a mass-market mobile. A well-known Netherlands developer now has a 10 megapixel prototype on the drawing boards.
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Following are three photos from the Sydney rally, taken before the camera's capacity was exhausted!
Nurses' Association at Belmore Park
by Roy Garner
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 03:15 PM
rrgarner@bigpond.net.au 02 9568 1149 268A Flood Street, Leichhardt, Sydney NSW 2040
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Workers march in Campbell Street, Sydney
by Roy Garner
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 03:15 PM
rrgarner@bigpond.net.au 02 9568 1149 268A Flood Street, Leichhardt, Sydney NSW 2040
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Go Workers!
by Dave
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 06:25 PM
Yyyeeeesss!
Good to see workers over there standing up and taking some action against these attacks.
Question: Why were the Melbourne rallies so large compared to Sydneys much smaller effort, given that Sydney is in a Labour state and has a much larger population?
Over here, over the last few years, we had been given to believe that many Victorian unions were controlled by "thugs" and 'wreckers" whilst in NSW (for eg.) the unions are much more "responsible".
Have we been misinformed?
Lifelong Unionist, NZ
Different cities; different cultures
by Takver
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 08:02 PM
Dave,
after living in both Sydney and Melbourne I think the answer comes down to diffrent street and protest cultures, and different political history between the two cities. Melbourne had the large anti-Vietnam Moratorium march in 1970 (100.000) while Sydney had 30,000.
Sydney can really pull out the crowds though, such as the walk for reconciliation over the harbour bridge a few years ago (200,000?)and the huge peace march on 16 Feb 2003 (250,000), while Melbourne got perhaps 150,000 marching on 14 Feb 2003.
The Kennett State Liberal Government in Victoria in the early 1990s motivated a union protest rally and march of 100,000.
In recent years the NSW Labor Council has been associated more with the right wing of the ALP, while the Victorian Trades Hall Council has been more activist and associated with "Left wing" unions. During the War on the Wharfies dispute in 1998, it was the VTHC that pushed for a general day of protest which went ahead in Victoria, but no where else.
Your information that Victorian unions were controlled by "thugs" and 'wreckers" whilst in NSW (for eg.) the unions are much more "responsible", is not correct. As bureacracies, unions will attract those people exploiting the organisation for personal power or power for a clique. Sometimes its criminals, usually its seen as a political stepping stone to political office. Sad but true.
The ALP and many unions in Victoria have tened to be activist and more "left-wing", probably partly deriving from the split in the ALP that happened in the 1950s when all the Catholic groupers secceeded to form the Democratic Labor Party. This split was more pronounced in Victoria than other states.
cool
by shayne
Wednesday November 16, 2005 at 12:57 PM
This needs to be said. Takver, you have an astonishingly wide grasp of activist history!
An asset to the movement good sir!
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