EPISODE · Dec 31, 2024
Reclaim the Radical Spirit of Eureka
from Stick Together · host Annie McLoughlin, Dr Joe Toscano, Brett Edgerton
As we put 2024 to bed with its defining moment of Federal Labor’s legislation placing the CFMEU Construction & General Division into administration it is worth considering the bedrock of workers struggle in this country, the first major event of post-colonial Australia the Eureka Stockade. We go to the pre-dawn reclaim the radical spirit of Eureka event held in Ballarat on Dec 3 on the site of the original stockade where in 1854 the army and police attack miners for daring to call for the end of mining licenses and universal suffrage.
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As we put 2024 to bed with its defining moment of Federal Labor’s legislation placing the CFMEU Construction & General Division into administration it is worth considering the bedrock of workers struggle in this country, the first major event of post-colonial Australia the Eureka Stockade. We go to the pre-dawn reclaim the radical spirit of Eureka event held in Ballarat on Dec 3 on the site of the original stockade where in 1854 the army and police attack miners for daring to call for the end of mining licenses and universal suffrage.
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