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Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner commemoration: midday, Thursday 20th January 2022, corner Victoria and Frankiln streets, Melbourne
Peter's Icecream Dispute II The workers at the Peter's Melbourne Plant took stop work action on Friday 21 Jan over cuts to casuals' hourly rates. We talk to UWU spokesperson Dave Harris.Melb City Use of By-laws to stop Protest? II The recent rally outside Treasury Place in support of Refugees detained at Park Hotel was threatened with the use of by-laws related to noise. MALS has expressed concern after two organisers were given citations for using a loud speaker to amplify their message. We speak with one of the organisers, Apsara Sabaratnam, about the Melbourne City Response.Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheener Commemoration IIA Long View From The Left II Max Ogden chats to us about his new autobiography published by Bad Apple Press
1. The dramatic recent fish kill in the Murray/ Darling Basin spotlights the weak governance of the Murray/Darling river system. We talk to Rod Campbell from the Australia Institute for background on the issues involved.2. Joe Toscano gives background to the memorial held annually for Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheener, indigineous freedom fighters the first people hanged in the colonial state of Victoria.3 Don Sutherland talks about the arrest of Danny Lim in Sydney, the workers win over causualization at Woolongong Coal, and the Superannuation rort being touted by the Productivity Commission.We also wished to note the death of Eric Aarons a left wing warrior. Vale Eric Aarons.
AWTW 4-1-17 The Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener saga. Join us at midday Friday 20th January, corner of Franklin and Victoria Street Melbourne.
Something tipped Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener over the edge when they were in Victoria with George Augustus Robinson, but no one knows for sure what it was.
A daring departure soon leads to an inevitable confrontation between Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener's group and the colonists.
Memorials everywhere, but what do they tell us? A controversial push for frontier conflict to be recognised is close to becoming a reality in Melbourne.