Follows the story of Bob Santamaria who opposed communism in the trade union movement. His wish to reform the ALP led to the 1955 split in the party. Santamaria subsequently formed the DLP. There is some focus upon Ballarat's part in this history.Relevant to the history of the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party. Bookbtlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, santamaria, bob, communism, unions, alp, dlp, democratic labor party, australian labor party, evatt, hv (doc), catholic social studies movement, australian labor party (anti-communist)

Paper; book; 256 pagesTitle and editor's names on the front cover. Precis of the content on the back cover, including the names of contributors.australian labor party, alp, labor and laboring classes, history, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, australian labor movement

Biography. A profile of the life and circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967.Relevant to Australian political history and the Liberal Party.Paper; book. Front cover: sepia photograph of Harold Holt; light blue text.Front cover: author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, liberal party, holt, harold, frame, tom, biography, liberal party of australia, politics, politicians, prime minister

History of the AWU which was formed in 1886. Shows AWU's role in strike actions (including the 1890s), opposition to conscription and the 1950s Labor split.Relevant to the history of the Australian Labor Party, Australian trade unions, National AWU, industrial relations and conscription.Paper; book. Front cover: yellow and blue background; picture of Australian Workers Union banner; white text.Front cover: authors' names and title; AWU name and slogan on the banner picture.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, australian labor party, alp, awu, australian workers union, industrial relations, strikes, unions, conscription, alp split

Biography of Tamie Fraser. Tamie Fraser was married to Malcolm Fraser who was Prime Minister of Australia. Includes her role of campaigning on her husband's behalf in the 1975 Federal election. The author, Christina Hindhaugh, is Tamie Fraser's sister.Relevant to the history of liberal and labour politics in Australia, including events around the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975.Paper; book. Dust jacket: light blue background; colour picture of Tamie Fraser, black and blue lettering; author's name and title. Cover: blue; white lettering; author's name and title.Title page: name, "F. J. Story, Ex AL 3/87".fraser, tamie, fraser, tamara, fraser, malcolm, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, politics, politicians, politicians' spouses, biography, whitlam government - dismissal, whitlam, eg, 1975, liberal party australia, australian labour party, alp, australiana fund, open garden scheme, prime minister, beggs, tamara

An autobiography of ALP MP Bill Hayden, formerly leader of the opposition. Hayden relinquished this role, after which Bob Hawke became leader and won the 1983 election. Hayden served as Australian Governor General from 1989-1996. Prior to his career as a politician, Bill Hayden was a policeman.Relevant to the history of the Australian Labor Party and Australian political history.Paper; book; 610 pages. Front cover: maroon. Dustjacket: artistic impression of Bill Hayden (colour); gold and white lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, hayden, bill, hawke, bob, alp, australian labour council, politics, politicians, elections, autobiography, prime minister, governor general

Pictorial history of Ballarat collected by a local person, Max Harris.Local history.Paper; bookbtlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat, pictorial works, buildings - ballarat, streetscapes - ballarat

Pictorial history of Ballarat collected by a local person, Max Harris.Local history.Paper; bookbtlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, ballarat, pictorial works, buildings - ballarat, streetscapes - ballarat

Members of the Victorian Coal Miners Association, were locked out of the Jumbunna Coal Mine in 1903. The book charts the long battle between capital and labour that lasted seventy weeks.Significant to union history - particularly the Victorian Coal Miners Association - and industrial action. Paper; book. Front cover: old black and white picture of miners with their banner; white text.Front cover: author name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, victorian coal miners association, strikes, unions, jumbunna coal mine, industrial disputes, coal miners

Gunther was an American journalist and author. The "Inside" series of books are continental surveys. Gunther travelled through each geographical area, conducting interviews with a variety of people (politicians, average people, social leaders). The Inside series are his interpretations of these experiences. Relevant to Australian and New Zealand's cultural, political and social profiles circa 1972.Book; paper. Front cover: authors' name and title.ethnography, "inside" series, surveys, interviews, geography, politicians, social history, travel, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, anthropology

Biography of David Stewart (carpenter and educationalist). Through the labour movement, Stewart campaigned for a programme of workers' education. Stewart established a branch of the WEA in Sydney in 1913.Relevant to history of adult education and social history in NSW. The WEA is still in existence and offers courses in languages, the visual arts and humanities.Paper; book. Front cover: orange and white portrait photo of Stewart; red and black text. Front cover: author's name and title.workers educational association, stewart, david, education, labor movement, workers' education, adult education, wea, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council

During a stay at Dunbar, one of Australia's largest cattle stations, the author was faced with the problem of getting a badly injured man to hospital, it was the wet season, but the Royal flying doctor service came to the rescue. The author was later a nurse in a bush hospital and worked in close cooperation with the flying doctor service before writing "Mantle of Safety".Autobiographical and relevant to the history of the Australian flying doctor service.Paper; book.Cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, hospital, royal flying doctor service, bush hospitals, autobiography, medicine

The author tracks Australia's achievement of power and wealth through its natural resources and sheer luck. Horne uses the phrase "the lucky country" as a pejorative; he believes that Australians showed a lack of innovation and enterprise and were second rate politically and economically. Ironically, the phrase is now widely used to describe Australia in a complimentary way. Horne wrote a second book called "Death of the Lucky Country".A critique of Australia's political and economic achievements as an industrialised nation up until the 1960s. Paper; book. Front cover: black background; artistic impression - man in hat holding a glass of beer with ocean in the background.Front cover: author's name, title and price.natural resources, the lucky country, innovation, enterprise, politics, economics, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, power, wealth, death of the lucky country, social criticism

An account of World War I conscription conflicts. Relevant to history of World War I and opposition to military conscription.Paper; book; 365 pagesbtlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, world war i, conscription, military, anti-conscriptionism

Autobiography of Barry Jones who was a quiz champion, school teacher, crusader against the death penalty, National President of the ALP and Federal Minister for Science.Autobiographical interest and relevant to Australian politics.Paper; book. Front cover: picture of Barry Jones in front of bookcase.Front cover: title and author.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, jones, barry, television quiz champions, education, school teachers, death penalty, politics, politicians, alp, australian labour party, cabinet

Autobiography of Australian author, Thomas Kenneally. From the first paragraph: "For this is not an exhaustive tale of boyhood but of the one reckless, sweet, divinely hectic and subtly hormonal year. That is, in my case, 1952. It seems to outweigh the other years, to be the most succulent and the most dangerous."Autobiographical interest. Relevant to Australian literary history.Paper; book. Front cover: full-colour photograph of a child in a military uniform; white text. Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, kenneally, thomas, kenneally, thomas michael, memoir, autobiography, 1952

Autobiographical account of Killen's twenty eight years in federal parliament.Relevant to history of the Liberal Party Australia and the federal parliament. Autobiographical interest.355 pages. Paper; book. Cover is blue with white lettering and a colour photograph of Killen. Front cover: author's name and book title.killen, james, killen, jim, liberal party australia, parliament, autobiography, politics, politicians

An oral history of rank and file wharfies - history of working on the Melbourne waterfront.Relevant to the history of trade unionism and especially waterfront workers.Paper; book. Front cover: black background; black and white image of two men; red and white text.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, oral histories, wharfies, waterfront workers, unions, maritime workers' union, maritime workers' strike, class wars

Account of Australian assistance to the Indonesian rebellion against the Dutch.Relevant to the history of foreign relations in the region. Paper; book. Front cover: white background; various two-tone pictures including images of Evatt and Chifley; black, green and red text. Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, boycotts, foreign relations, indonesia, indonesia - revolution, australian history

The return of Labor to government in 1972 to 1974.Relevant to Australian political history and history of the ALP.Paper; book. Blue and white cover with black and white portrait photographs.Front page: title and authors' name.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, whitlam, eg, whitlam, gough, australian labor party, alp, elections, government, whitlam government - dismissal, parliament, mcmahon, william, prime minister

An oral history of Waipuldanya (AKA Phillip Roberts), a full-blood Aboriginal who became a medical assistant for Department of Health at Darwin Hospital.Oral history. Aboriginal biography.Paper; book. Front cover: colour head image of an Aboriginal man; white lettering.Front cover: title and compiler's name.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, aboriginal persons, oral histories, biography, department of health - northern territory, darwin hospital, waipuldanya, indigenous australians, aboriginal australians, ethnography, northern territory, alawa people, aboriginal - customs

Annual collection of essays.Significant to Labor platform and policy.Paper; book. btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, politics, government, periodicals

Contents: The changing role of trade unions: past struggles and future directions /​ Bob Hawke Industrial Labor and political Labor: the experience of 1972-1975 /​ Clyde Cameron The union connection: trade union affiliation with the Australian Labor Party /​ Don Rawson Australian unions and socialist strategies /​ Bruce Hartnett Conciliation and arbitration: is there an alternative? /​ Andrew Cunningham Wage indexation: an ACTU perspective /​ Jan Marsh Trade unions, collective action and incomes policy /​ Barry Hughes Structural economic change: the options for the Labor movement /​ Chris Hurford Technological change and the trade unions /​ Bill Mansfield Justice, the Palestinians and the prospects for peace in the Middle East /​ Andrew Mack Commentary about the labour and trade union movement in Australia.Paper; book.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, economy, unions, palestine, middle east, wages, socialism, conciliation and arbitration, alp, australian labor party

Annual collection of essays. Policies and programs for the Labor Government.Significant to ALP future planning and policy platform. Copy 2 forms part of the D.J. Spiers Collection.Paper; book. Cover: lilac, white and black. Front cover: names of editors and contributors, title. Title page: in black ink, "D.J. Spiers". (In copy 2.)btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, politics, government

Annual collection of labor essays.Significant to ALP policy platform.Paper; book; green, black and orange cover.Front cover: title; editor's and contributors' names. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, alp, australian labor party, politics, government, periodicals

Annual labor essays periodical. Essayists include leaders Kim Beazley and Gareth Evans, Mark Latham and Lindsay Tanner, Cheryl Kernot and Mary Delahunty, ACTU President Jennie George, Simon Crean and Bob McMullan, and John Button. Theme: New Visions for Government.Relevant to ALP forward planning and policy platform.Paper; book; black, white and blue cover.Front cover: editors' name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, government, parliament, leadership

Biography of Fidel Castro who led the communist revolution in Cuba and was the country's leader until 2008. Castro was instrumental in other communist revolutions around the world. His ongoing relationship with the Soviet Union caused tension with the United States and led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.Significant to the history of Communism - especially in Cuba. Paper; book. Front cover: black and white picture of Castro; red, black and white background.Front cover: author's name and title (black and white text).castro, fidel, cuba, cuban missile crisis, soviet union, ussr, usa, united states of america, politics, revolution, history, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall

Secret (leaked) government documents dealing with East Timor, US military bases in Australia, the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean, the Shah’s regime in Iran and the Vietnam War. Originally published as "Documents on Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1968-1975" - this edition was previously banned and all unsold copies were destroyed by the government.Significant to Australian foreign relations in the period 1968-1975.Paper; book. Front cover: black background; pictures of newspapers and a book; red and white text.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, east timor, us military bases, soviet navy, vietnam, iran, vietnam war, documents on australian defence and foreign policy, government leaks, shah of iran

Memoir of former Liberal Party prime minister, Robert Gordon Menzies. Menzies also served as Deputy Premier of Victoria. He launched the Liberal Party Australia in 1945.Relevance to the history of Australian politics - especially, the Liberal Party Australia and the United Australia Party.Dark coloured paperback with photo of Sir Robert Menzies on the cover. Name of author and title on front cover. Back cover is green with white print, including author's name and a precis of the content. Includes a brief statement of praise from the Daily Telegraph. Prices are at the bottom of the back cover.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, menzies, sir robert, menzies, rg, menzies, bob, prime minister, deputy premier - victoria, liberal party australia, united australia party, cricket - anecdotes, politics, politicians, memoir, autobiography

The General Strike took place in 1926 in Britain. The nine day strike across many industries was called by the Trades Union Congress to protect pay rates and working conditions for coal miners. Relevant to the General Strike and to history of trade unionism in Britain.Paper; book. Cover: collage - picture of 6 men superimposed over a copy of the British Worker; background is white with red text; blue spine.Front cover: title and author's name.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, general strike - britain, trades union congress - britain, tuc - britain, unions, strikes, industrial action, miners, coal miners, wages