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June 19, 1969 After decades of campaigning (including Zelda D’Aprano famously chaining herself to a government building), women workers were FINALLY granted equal pay rates with men for equal work. Future Prime Minister Bob Hawke served as the ACTU advocate. #ausunions

Thanks to the @ausarchivists for this recognition and award - I am grateful to be acknowledged by my peers UTS: Jumbunna Institute Lead Pipe

This thread will be a great read on how social attitudes towards homosexual couples were transformed in Oz. (For background on CAMP see reasoninrevolt.net.au/biogs/E000713b…)

Insecure funding and lack of preparedness for digital transformation hindering Australia’s archives agencies, review finds | The Mandarin #archives themandarin.com.au/140988-insecur…

It has come to my attention that the Fryer Library UQ News has procured a nearly complete run of the CPA (ML)’s Vanguard newspaper, 1964-2019. Being catalogued and bound as we speak. Anti revisionists rejoice! @evanishistory Andy Fleming Alison Pennington David Brophy

There are some extracts from the F.A.A Bulletin in volume 2 of the Melbourne Anarchist Archives (online thanks to Reason in Revolt John Englart EAM 🌏 on Mastodon as @[email protected] and Viola Wilkins), but other than that I've not had much luck.

If you missed our brilliant trans history seminar last week, never fear - the recording is here! Check out some fascinating insights about Australian trans lives, archives and identities over the 20th C from @NoahRiseman & Adrien McCrory youtube.com/watch?v=1SiRCp…

A history of the HIV epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s in Sydney #lgbthistorymonth auswhn.org.au/blog/bearing-w…

All protectors at the Djab Wurrung Embassy have been removed except for 2 people locked to cars, 8 to barrels and 4 in the grandfather and grandmother trees at Top Camp. Photos from DW Embassy Dan Andrews #StopWorkonDWLand #NoTreesNoTreaty

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#BREAKING A Supreme Court Judge has granted an interim injunction to temporarily stop construction works on a section of the #WesternHighway Duplication project, west of Ballarat. ABC Melbourne ABC Indigenous ABC News

We are DjabWurrung, we will not give up this fight. Supreme Court today granted an injunction til 19th November.

The Royal Commission’s final report gets it: “Extreme weather has already become more frequent & intense because of climate change; further warming over the next 20-30 years is inevitable. “As the events of the 2019/20 fire season show, what was unprecedented is now our future"

Very interesting post here on the Australian Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils. See also reasoninrevolt.net.au/biogs/E000444b…