At the time I addressed the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History last September and told how the Hawke Government’s Wages Accord had resulted in a reduction in the real wage of low and middle wage earners, while the real salaries of the more highly paid, had skyrocketed …
In the 1960s, the United States was shaken by racial tensions and fledgling social movements. Discouraged by the shortcomings of the civil rights movement and its apparent inability to secure freedom and self-determination for African American people, Malcolm X uttered the motto that would electrify black communities for decades: …to fight whoever gets in our …
Standing on the defendant’s dock at his trial in Johannesburg, a black man gives a speech that would inspire nations. It’s 1964 in South Africa, a country torn by racial segregation, and this man is speaking about his ideal of freedom, democracy and equality for all people, black and white. He is on trial for …
Althea Gibson was born in 1927 in Carolina, her parents were poor and their livelihood was under threat. As cotton pickers they received a small percentage of the profits for their labour but America was in the grips of a savage drought and for three consecutive years the crops failed forcing them to uproot their …
Issues regarding family can often be an emotional and stressful time for all involved. However, family law as we know it hasn’t always been the way it is. As attitudes change around marriage and family, so must the law reflect that. Often what was forbidden, and frowned upon is now accepted as a social norm. …
Asbestos is a highly versatile, strong, cheap, non-flammable malleable substance that has been used in building, textiles and construction for the last 2000 years. Asbestos is also a highly toxic airborne fibrous substance that causes a number of different incurable cancers in humans that are exposed to it. Asbestos is in many homes around …