ONE SONG – MANY LIVES: Remembering the Westgate Bridge tragedy
15 October 1970 is infamous as the date of one of Australia’s worst industrial disasters. A span of the Westgate Bridge, then under construction, collapsed. 35 workers plummeted to their deaths below. Covid-19 restrictions in 2020 played havoc with plans to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy. The annual pilgrimage of remembrance to the memorial plaque was cancelled, but the anniversary was still appropriately observed, with the Memorial Committee’s live stream Facebook event, 3CR’s documentaries from 1990 and 1995, Channel 9’s documentary feature, and Sam Wallman’s magnificent eight-panel artwork. … Continue readingONE SONG – MANY LIVES: Remembering the Westgate Bridge tragedy
Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin
This year marks 75 years since the death of John Curtin. The Melbourne Branch’s Dr. Liam Byrne has written the forthcoming biography of John Curtin and James Scullin, being published
Childe Unbound
By Rowan Cahill What follows is in part a review, but also a commentary, and it benefits from the perspective of an insider. As Terry Irving notes in his Acknowledgements
The Inaugural Ken Inglis Memorial Lecture
A notice from the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences The Inaugural Ken Inglis Memorial Lecture All the Things We Cannot See The Dunera story and the challenge of visual
ASSLH AGM & Annual Dinner
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History AGM Date: Friday 30 November Time: 5-6 pm Place: 360 Collins St, Melbourne (La Trobe University city campus, room 20:03. Level 20)
BOOK LAUNCH: ON THE FLY! HOBO LITERATURE AND SONGS, 1879–1941
A new anthology of American hobo writing edited by Melbourne historian Iain McIntyre will be launched on Sunday November 11th from 3pm to 6pm at the Old Bar (74-76 Johnston
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Fundraiser for Community Radio 3CR and the Rainforest Information Centre
The 2019 How To Make Trouble And Influence People diary features a radical event in Australian history for each day of the year as well as stories and images covering
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EDITING MATTERS, 1969-73
By Rowan Cahill From 1969 to 1973, I was a member of the Editorial Board, later Editorial Collective, of Australian Left Review (ALR), the Marxist journal of cultural and political
E.P. Thompson: A Twentieth-Century Romantic
By Peter Love Book Review of Christos Efstathiou, E.P.Thompson: A Twentieth-Century Romantic (London: Merlin Press, 2015). pp. x + 248. £25 HB. This book began life as a doctoral thesis at