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19 August – Thousands of protesters, in a breakaway group from a pre-budget rally against the Federal Government's workplace reforms, broke down the doors of Parliament House and caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damage in one of the most violent demonstrations ever seen in Australia. [58] [59] 20 August –
The 1996 Parliament House riot (also called the Canberra riot), involved a physical attack on Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, on 19 August 1996. The riot followed the "Cavalcade to Canberra" protest rally organised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) against the Howard government 's first Budget following the 1996 Australian ...
S11 refers to a series of protests against meetings of the World Economic Forum on 11, 12 and 13 September 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, where approximately 10,000 people of many ages and a wide cross section of the community were involved. [3] One of the groups involved in the protests called itself the S11 Alliance. [4]
Timeline of the Eureka Rebellion This page was last edited on 16 December 2024, at 06:45 (UTC). Text ... Category: Protests in Australia. 5 languages ...
April 1998 ABC news report on the Waterfront Dispute.. The Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was an event in Australian industrial relations history, in which the Patrick Corporation undertook a restructuring of their operations for the purpose of dismissing their workforce.
1996 – Yatala Prison Riot, May 6, 1996 (Yatala Labour Prison, Adelaide, South Australia) [68] 1996 – Riots in Trafalgar Square during UEFA Euro 96, June 26, 1996 (London, England) 1996 – Drumcree riots, July 1996 (throughout Northern Ireland) Derry riots; 1996 – Parliament House Riot, August 19, 1996 (Canberra, Australia)
According to police estimates reported by local media, at least 15,000 people were part of protests and music events in Sydney, while Melbourne’s central business district saw at least 30,000.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...