10-09-1892 The first train of contractors brought in to scab during the Broken Hill miners' strike arrives and is met with hostility from local men and women. [more]

10-09-1917 Mass meetings of Sydney railway workers express outrage at the unions' capitulation to the government's terms, but nevertheless a return to work from the general strike begins. [more]

16-09-1917 Eva Lynch, a member of the IWW union in Australia, Is arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive while so many of the men were in prison. [more]

23-09-1945 Australian wharfies refuse to work on Dutch vessels in support of Indonesia’s Independence. [more]