The Australian Council of Trade Unions, originally the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, is the largest peak body representing workers in Australia. It is a national trade union centre of 46 affil
Melbourne Trades Hall in Victoria is the "birthplace" of the ACTU.
Bob Hawke, ACTU President in 1970
Greg Combet, then-Secretary of the ACTU, speaking on 2 November 2005 shortly after the Government introduced its WorkChoices legislation into the Australian Parliament
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The Australian Workers' Union is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the late 1880s and it currently ha
Australian Workers' Union Hall, Chillagoe, Queensland, ca. 1915
Union building named in honour of Clarrie Fallon, 1953
Eight-hour day march circa 1900, outside Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.