The Fightback Show: 1986, April 27

1. Theme – Redgum – Raggin’
    

2. Norman Ainsworth from ACT Tenants Union on campaign against a 20% increase in rents in government housing in Canberra.
    

3. Warumpi Band – Gotta Be Strong
    

4. Tanya on government-funded polling which shows the government’s failure to explain or campaign for its land rights legislation is leaving the field wide open for mining company propaganda to spread.
    

5. Diary of events with Bill Tully
    

6. Cherie Watkins – “Prison’s Nothing Special” from the record The First Australians 
    

7. Alex Glasgow – Close the Coalhouse Door
    

8. Nick Harris from the Builders Labourers’ Federation re ongoing battles following deregistration. Success turning away concrete trucks at the White Industries site last week, 500 cops mobilised for pickets tmrw. Scabbing role of FEDFA, muscle men being hired as BWIU “delegates”, safety concerns, role of women in the BLF fight. Prue Power from the RANF on media lies in nurses dispute, importance of BLF struggle.
    

9. Redgum – If you don’t fight, you lose