Education going down the gilded toilet

This week we talked to Kate from the NTEU and NTEU Fightback about their campaign for better work conditions at QUT. This includes fighting against increased casualisation of employment, for better job security, and against the unpaid use of recordings of fired staff.

• Links to what we talked about
• Ms Wynne's Grandmother calls for police to stop killing people
• Royal  commission  into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with a disability
• ETEX victory part 1
• ETEX victory part 2
• MUA Qube strike
• Startrack strike
• Common Ground residents demand justice
• Canadian nurses national day of action

Sex Worker Pride

This week we talk to Lulu and Niki from DecrimQLD about the work they do to decriminalise sex work and allow workers to use basic safety practices. It was also Sex Worker Pride Day on Tuesday so we talked about the destigmatisation of sex work and sex workers having pride in their work and the rights they have won. Earlier in the show we also listen to a recording from the CFMEU rally last week against the mismanagement of the Cross River Rail project.

• Links to what we talked about
• Parklea prison covid cluster
• Murder cop trial delayed
• First Nations people to manage lang
• Willow Grove green ban ended
• SW Police punish social housing residents in hard lockdown
• Bus drivers strike for covid testing
• Women in Afghanistan fight against Taliban
• Palestinian people escape from Israeli prison
• Mexico decriminalises abortion
• Scallywag CEO of Shell

Getting Equal - The first successful fight for equal wages for First Nations people in Australia

This week we chat with Elisabeth and Tegan from the North Stradbroke Island Museum about the 'Outside Gang' of the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum and their fight for equal wages. In 1944, after a 25 year campaign, First Nations workers at the asylum gained equal wages, almost 20 years before anywhere else in Australia. Later in the show we are joined by Jeff from the Brisbane Labour History Association who brings us up to date on their activities.

• Links to what we talked about
• Stradbroke museum exhibition page
• Women of Steel film screening
• Stella Nord Bursary
• Toowoomba council workers strike