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ACTU

Interview:

Mary Kelly

Time:

00:39:03

Mary Kelly describes the relationships between the Queensland Teachers Union, the Trades and Labor Council (TLC) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) between 1985 and 1994.

Interview:

Bob Anderson

Time:

00:22:02

Bob Anderson gives examples of how being forthright or showing 'audacity' became a key feature of his union activities. This was of particular use when he went over to the Bougainville Copper Mine, northern Papua New Guinea as part of a group of union officials to investigate pay and working conditions, at the company's request.

Interview:

Janice Mayes

Time:

00:17:04

Janice Mayes discusses the demarcation disputes she was involved with as a union official.

Interview:

Diane Zetlin

Time:

00:47:10

Diane Zetlin discusses the possibility of the NTEU affiliating with either the ACTU or the ALP.

Interview:

Diane Zetlin

Time:

00:32:10

Diane Zetlin speaks about the amalgamation of two organisations to form the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in the late 1980s, and the issues associated with the union becoming affiliated with the ACTU.

Interview:

Walter Threlfall

Time:

00:52:20

Walter Threlfall discusses union involvement with Indigenous issues in North Queensland, particularly in the community of Yarrabah.

Interview:

Walter Threlfall

Time:

00:46:10

Walter Threlfall recounts his involvement in and relationship with peak trade union bodies in Queensland generally, and locally in Townsville.

Interview:

Walter Threlfall

Time:

00:28:33

Walter Threlfall discusses the interactions of the ETU, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the AWU and the ACTU in the Mount Isa Mines lockout in the early 1990s.

Interview:

Walter Threlfall

Time:

00:23:28

Walter Threlfall details other industrial disputes in which the ETU was involved, particularly the Mount Isa Mine lockout and the Weipa dispute in the early 1990s.