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Worker-Student Alliance

  • Corporate body

Worker-Student Alliance (1971?-1972). Also known as the Worker-Student Alliance Committee.
Objectives - To link issues arising on the University of Queensland campus with those affecting broader groups of people outside.
Publicists - Dick Shearman.
Notes: The Alliance was a loose group which rarely met formally. The people involved were primarily student leftists.

Workers' Political Organization (Rockhampton, Qld.)

  • Corporate body

Workers Political Organizations were local Labor political organizations open to all unionists and non-unionists who accepted the Australian Labor Party platform. They were responsible for enrolling electors, educating workers in the principles of the Labor movement and choosing political candidates. The Democratic League was another local Labor political organization.

Workers Party Queensland Division

  • Corporate body

Workers Party, Queensland Division (1975-1977). Became the Progress Party.
Objectives - A return to the true free enterprise system of laissez-faire capitalism. The party opposed the erosion of the rights of individuals, the growth of Big Government, the spread of socialism and rising taxes, wages and prices.
Publicists - Susan Benfer, David Boughen, Viv Forbes, Les Johnson, David Russell, Gary Sturgess, Roger Wickham.

Workers' Educational Association of Queensland

  • Corporate body
  • 1913-1939

The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) was formed in Queensland in 1913. It's objectives were to link trade unionists, universities and state education departments to encourage and stimulate workers' education. The WEA was disbanded by the Queensland Government in 1939.

Workers' Education Dramatic Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1930-1941

The Workers' Education Dramatic Society existed in Brisbane from 1930 to 1941, its beginnings in 1929 when a course in dramatic art was introduced to the Workers' Education Association of Queensland. It produced social and political dramas and pursued an educational role, promoting drama with an emphasis on peace and women's rights. . It made serious efforts to encourage Australian playwrights. Regarded by the Queensland government as promoting a dangerous and minority view, led to the demise of the Society in 1941.

Workers' Control Movement

  • Corporate body

Workers' Control Movement (1973-1974).
Objectives - To create a mass movement for workers' control of industry.
Publicists - Alice Hughes, Hugh Hamilton, Wally Stubbings.
Note: The movement organised a Brisbane Regional Worker's Control Conference (17-18th November, 1973). It was part of a national movement which organised conferences at Newcastle and Armidale.

Workers Against Uranium Mining

  • Corporate body

Workers Against Uranium Mining (1978?-197? ).
Objectives - To build the anti-uranium campaign on the job and to strengthen trade union opposition to the nuclear industry.
Note: W.A.U.M. was associated with the International Socialists.

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