Workers Power: How environmentalists and unions fought to protect the reef

16 July 2022

How environmentalists and unions fought to protect the reef

Episode from 12 April

This week we talk to Alison from the Brisbane Labour History Association about the fight in the 70s to protect the Great Barrier Reef from mining. This fight was an early example of solidarity between environmental groups and unions, as well as unions taking industrial action to protect the environment.

Interview begins at 7:29

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