Month: December 2021

A day of discord

A day of discord FREEDOM-MEMORIAL-CIRCLE_cmyk

Some brought their children, smiling uneasily above t-shirts with slogans they couldn’t possibly understand. Others rode motorbikes or motorised mobility scooters. Almost all carried placards or waved upside-down flags – a sign, I was told, that “Australia is under distress”. They were Broken Hill’s contingent of the national Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccinations, which saw thousands swarm into the business districts of the nation’s capitals and dozens of regional centres last Saturday.

Climate Change: Broken Hill’s Economic Opportunity

Climate Change: Broken Hill’s Economic Opportunity Wind-Farm-CMYK-200ppi

For more than 150 years, Broken Hill has been a mining town. Its history of strikes and struggle is legendary; many of the basic industrial rights that Australians take for granted were first won by the miners of Broken Hill. That struggle made sure that the Broken Hill’s mineral wealth was shared with the workers who have produced it.