From IE: Unions and schools are history waiting to happen
It’s never too late to start recording your precious heritage. Three historians explain why the past matters so much and how it can inform our present.
IEU Labour History column: The bark petitions that changed Australia
The Yirrkala bark petition was the first formally recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander document tabled in the Australian Parliament.
Liam Byrne is about to deliver the definitive Australian union history
ACTU historian Liam Byrne is about to release an important new book, No Power Greater: A History of Union Action in Australia, which “gets to the heart of what it means to be a unionist”.
Liam Byrne, the Australian union movement’s historian
‘Without our history, how do we know who we are?’ asks Dr Liam Byrne, who has been the ACTU Historian since 2019.
IEU Labour History: Anna Stewart, the woman who inspired a generation of female unionists
Anna Stewart was was never one to take the easy path or to shirk a fight.