BLHA Podcasts from 4ZZZ

4ZZZ Studios, 264 Barry Parade. Previously, the building served as the state offices of the
Communist Party of Australia. In the 1960s and 70s the ground floor was occupied by the
People’s Book Shop. (Image 4ZZZ-FM)

In November 2020 the Brisbane Labour History Association commenced a monthly guest spot on Workers Power, a program on Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ. Each month a BLHA guest selects a topic from history and is interviewed for 30 to 60 minutes. The BLHA wishes to thank the program’s convenor, Bill Storey Smith, and the Workers Power crew for this opportunity to bring labour history to a radio audience.

5 July 2022, A Troublemakers’ History of South Brisbane Cemetery, with Neil Frost, from 34:04
7 June 2022, The Working Class Origins of Rugby League, with Greg Mallory
5 April 2022, How Environmentalists and Unions Saved the Great Barrier Reef, with Alison Stewart
1 March 2022, Working Women Fighting Back, the History of the PMG Telephonists Union (the ATPOA), with Jeff Rickertt. from 1.08.54
24 February 2022, Why Is It So? A History of the Early Brisbane Punk Scene, with Virginia Clarke, from 12.25
13 January 2022, Revolutionary Queensland, the History of the Red North, with Neil Frost
1 December 2021, The History of the Industrial Workers of the World in Queensland, with Jeff Rickertt, from 30:40.
5 October 2021, The Anti Vax Movement, Unions and Fascism. An Historical Analysis, with Jeff Rickertt, from 44:40.
12 September 2021, The ‘Outside Gang’ of the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum and their fight for equal wages. In 1944, after a 25-year campaign, First Nations workers at the asylum gained equal wages, almost 20 years before anywhere else in Australia. With Elisabeth and Tegan from the North Stradbroke Island Museum on Minjerribah.
6 July 2021, It won’t be long before the workers take over this joint! – A history of working class literature, with Allan Gardiner
1 June 2021, Making a Difference – The Queensland Labour Movement and Women’s Suffrage Campaigning, with Deborah Jordan
4 May 2021, The Colourful History of May Day in Meanjin, with Jeff Rickertt

6 April 2021, The Social Responsibility of Labour: The Pig Iron Dispute and the BLF Green Bans, with Greg Mallory
6 March 2021, Suffragettes and Suffering, with Deborah Jordan
23 February 2021, All is Fair in Love and War: the History of Unions in the Anti-War Movement (Part 2), with Ross Gwyther
2 February 2021, Jumping Through Windows: the 1936 Torres Strait Islanders’ Maritime Strike, with Jeff Rickertt
5 January 2021, A Bayonet is a Weapon with a Worker at Both Ends: the History of Unions in the Anti-War Movement (Part 1), with Ross Gwyther
1 December 2020, Beginners’ Mistakes: the Roots of Social Democracy and the Labor Party, with Jeff Rickertt
4 November 2020, The History of Class Struggle, with Greg Mallory