Melbourne We spent the morning meeting with and listening to the executive meeting of the Victoria Trades Hall or the central labor council of all of the unions in the state of Victoria. The whole experience was deeply moving in many ways, not so much because of the meeting, but the tremendous and principled …
Month: September 2008
YRAW, Your Rights at Work
Melbourne When first driving into the city from the airport, I thought Melbourne was significantly smaller than Sydney and more accessible, but once in the central business district and its canyons of skyscrapers the solidity of the city weighed more heavily. Checking later, it turns out that the metro Sydney area is about 4.3 …
Aboriginal Committee
Sydney Our last day in Sydney was gorgeous with sun and a breeze. A brief meeting with the chair of the Nature Conservancy was followed by a trek across the central business district to the offices of the teachers union of New South Wales. There in a long conference room we met for several …