Australia
Bonus for Ship's Surgeon
The Ticonderoga, a clipper carrying 646 Scottish and Irish emigrants, arrived in Melbourne, Australia on 22 December 1852. On...
Papua Found Guilty
On this day, a Papuan house servant in Australian New Guinea was found guilty of an unspecified sexual offense against a European...
South Sea Islanders
From the 1860s, the demand for labour on the sugar cane plantations of Fiji and Queensland, Australia, resulted in blackbirding...
A Widow's Survival Strategy
Clarinna Stringer, a widow with four children living in Carlton, Australia, was starving. She was refused relief by the local...
Pirate's Ideology
Come all you sons of Freedom, a chorus join with me,I’ll sing a song of heroes, and glorious liberty.Some lads condemn’d from...
Strikers' Camp Library
The first union strike camp of Australian sheep shearers was set up in Central Queensland on 6 January 1891. Strike camps were...
First Eight-hour Day in 1856
Sydney and Melbourne building workers were the first in the world to gain an eight-hour day. The Australian gold rushes in the...
Human Interest
Labor Daily, the official organ of the labor movement in Australia, mainly features friendly news about sports and human interest...
Terrorist International
On 17 July 1985 the Australian Socialist Workers Party responds to a speech by President Reagan about an international terrorist...
Indentured Plantation Labour
BackgroundFour Australian historians (Rob Castle, Jim Hagan, Roger Knight and Andrew Wells) have been working over many years on...
