Remembering Australia’s Green Bans
In the 1960s and ’70s, Australian construction workers created the blueprint for a green class politics.
(AUSTRALIA OUT) Builders Labourers Federation official Jack Mundey among demonstrators who blockaded part of The Rocks on 24 October 1973 SMH NEWS Picture by STAFF (Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)
The late 1960s proved to be a time of immense change across Australia. In Sydney, a post-war boom in the economy and population size saw a wave of development; in this, the abandonment of green belt laws created prime opportunities for overseas investment. Equal pay for women became a viable demand of some unions for […]
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