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Songs on the waterfront

  • F3892
  • Item
  • 1998

VHS video cassette, colour footage with sound, 18 minutes, of a documentary titled 'MUA picket - Brisbane - April 1998'. Features footage from the Australian waterfront dispute involving the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Patrick Corporation at the Port of Brisbane in 1998. Scenes of people, presumably MUA members, singing and chanting, accompanied by music by Canto Coro and Jumping Fences, taken at Camp Solidarity on 27 April 1998, are interspliced with scenes of interviews conducted at Camp Unity on 21 April 1998. Interviewees include Jeff Langdon, one of the organisers for MUA's southern Queensland branch at the time, and Greg Spilsbury, credited as an environmental consultant. End credits list Spontaneous Productions as producer, Justo Diaz as director and Russell (Russ) Hermann as editor.

Spontaneous Productions

Manual, shearers disturbances, 1894

  • F628
  • Item
  • 1894

Handwritten manual prepared for Justices of the Peace, Police Special Constables and other offices of the law. Author unknown.

Records collected by Mrs Bennett & presented to Queensland University : Vol. II

Scrapbook with handwritten page numbering to 329 with records collected by Mary Bennet. On page.iii "Volume II : Extracts from the Queenslander, Brisbane Courier, North Queensland Herald, and other papers, also corresondence dealing with the foundation of a School of Tropical Agriculture in the University of Queensland". These extracts are mostly typescript copies of letters written to newspapers by R. Christison, articles or results for Lammermoor Station for their cattle and horses. They relate to railways, The Australian Company, droughts, water conservation, agricultural activities and exporting, the export meat trade, the strike of 1891, strike of 1894, frozen meat trade, Hughenden Show, droughts, ticks, the Townsville Show results (from 1894 to to 1908), papers and correspondence by Robert Christison urging the establishment of colleges of tropical pastoral and agriculture science in Queensland. Christison gifted £1000.00 towards establishing a Chair in Tropical Agriculture in the University of Queensland.