The Fightback Show: 1986, June 15
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Redgum – Raggin’
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Brief program intro – Jay
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Alex Glasgow – As Soon as This Pub Closes (The Revolution Starts)
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Jay interviews Neil McFarlane from the ANU Students Association on changes to the Social Security Act which would cut welfare payments to students. Discussion of moves towards a new national student union after the collapse of the Australian Union of Students in 1984.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson – Making History
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Tanya goes through last week’s 'address to the nation' by Prime Minister Bob Hawke – what he would have said if he was actually telling the truth.
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Wild Pumpkins at Midnight – Apathetic Radical
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Bill Tully with Fightback Diary
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Style Council – Big Boss Groove
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Jay gives an industrial roundup: Melbourne building workers winning a 36 hour week on four sites; 1,000 miners locked out in Broken Hill; strikes by crane drivers at the BHP’s Port Kembla steelworks; employers’ partial lockout of waterside workers, attempting to impose a “no strike” clause.
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Judy Gorman-Jacobs – Truck Driving Woman
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Tanya’s address to the nation – a message the opposite of Bob Hawke’s.
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No Fixed Address – Black Man’s Rights
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Nick Harris from the BLF. The union has been doing a safety blitz on Canberra sites, including a successful picket on a Manuka building site. General situation with poor safety enforcement from rival unions (ends abruptly).
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Style Council – Money-go-round