The 1891 shearers' strike is one of Australia's earliest and most important industrial disputes.
Shearers' strike camp, Hughenden, central Queensland, 1891.
Workers' library at Barcaldine, during the strike.
Shearers' Strike Manifesto, 1891
Card celebrating shearers as Unionist Prisoners after the shearers strike in Barcaldine
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The Australian Labor Party is the major social democratic political party in Australia. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum, it is the oldest active party in the country, having been
1891 Australian shearers' strike
…when the union workers ran out of food, they were forced to come to terms. The outcome is credited as being one of the factors for the formation of the Australian Labor Party and the rise to power of a pro-Labor Party faction in the Australian Socialist League. In 1891, wool production was one of the Australian continent's…
Anderson Dawson's ministry leaving Parliament House, Brisbane, after being sworn in on 1 December 1899. His was the first government formed by a Labour party in the world.
Group photograph of federal Labour Party MPs elected to the House of Representatives and Senate at the inaugural 1901 election
Labor Party policy launch before a crowd in the Sydney Domain on 24 November 1975
Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales and Leader of NSW Labor