Trade Union Movement
In the first half of the twentieth century, Australia's trade union movement became one of the country's most influential social and political forces. Through campaigns for better wages, safer working conditions and workers' rights, unions also played a significant role in major national events, including the Great Depression, the Second World War and support for Indonesian independence after 1945.
An Attractive Naivety: Australia as a new nation in a complex world (Revised Edition)
An Attractive Naivety is an epic work of Australian historical fiction spanning the first half of the twentieth century. Through the lives of ordinary men and women, it traces the nation’s journey from Federation and plague to Depression, war, and uneasy peace. Interweaving fictional characters with real events, the novel explores the humour, hardship, courage and contradictions that shaped modern Australia.
Native Seamen's Strike Creates Police Problem
More than 600 mainly Javanese seamen in Sydney refused to sail their vessels, leading to mass arrests and prosecutions for being absent without leave or disobeying their masters. Many declared that they wanted to return to Java and chose imprisonment rather than comply, with 130 men each fined £10 or sentenced to 20 days in gaol. The dispute caused serious concern about disruption to Netherlands East Indies shipping and required extensive police intervention.
Black ban on dutch mercy ships
NEI Information Service deny that supplies for the suppression of the Indonesian people were carried aboard Dutch ships in Australian ports.
Esperance Bay leaves Brisbane
Esperance Bay leaves Brisbane with >1400 Indonesians destined for Java at the end of the war.
Indonesia calling - Joris Ivens, 1946
Indonesia Calling is a 1946 Australian short documentary film directed by Joris Ivens and produced by the then Waterside Workers' Federation.
Dutch Ships Again Black
A temporary ban on two Dutch ships imposed in Brisbane and Adelaide.
Boycott on Dutch Ships encouraged to continue
Third Congress of Indonesian Railway Labourers request Australian black ban on Dutch shipping to continue.
Seamen will boycott Dutch ships
Mass meeting of Seamen's Union in Melbourne vote to continue black ban of Dutch shipping.
Black Armada by Rupert Lockwood
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