LATEST MEETINGS

 

Thursday 6 November
1975: The Ballads of The Whitlam Dismissal
Steve Stockwell
Research and poems about the dismissal of the Whitlam Government

Thursday 2 October
80-year history of union involvement in the peace and anti-nuclear movement
Ross Gwyther

Thursday September 4th
Dying with Dignity
Kate Kunzelmann and Jos Hall
Promoting and protecting  for Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, and lobbying to make it more inclusive.

Thursday August 7th
UQ Campaign for Academic Freedom and Palestine / Report on Modern Slavery
Ravinder Sidhu, (Associate Professor, School of Education), and  Peter Duffy  (Vintage Reds Committee member)

Thursday 3rd July 2025
First Nations Action Network
Presentation from Steve Mam on the work of the First Nations Action Network.

Thursday 5th June 2025
Records wrangling 101 –  what to keep; what to let go!
workshop with  retired archivist Marg Reid on dealing with your old and important papers, etc

Thursday 3rd May 2025
Australian Schools Funding – Is it fixed?
with John McCollow and Mary Kelly

Thursday 6th March 2025
Update on QCU campaigns over next 6 months
Jacqueline King, General Secretary of QCU
Also Annual General Meeting of Vintage Reds Qld

Thursday 4th July 2024
Professor David Peetz
‘The future of work: flexibility, labour and values’
Recently retired  from Griffith University David Peetz is one of Australia’s most outstanding labour policy experts and guided us through the latest trends and what needs to be changed.

Thursday 6th June 2024
Climate Denial, Union Busting and the Atlas Network
with Bob Russell and Pam Blamey.

Thursday 2nd May
“What does International Solidarity look like?
with Kate Lee – APHEDA Executive Officer

Thursday 4th April 2024
Criminalising Dissent:
Demonstrations and Protest in Brisbane – the good and the bad news
There are some aspects of the peaceful Assembly Act of 1992 which gave demonstrators significant rights if we avail ourselves of them. At the same time governments of all persuasions are moving to criminalise all forms of protest.
Our special panel of three speakers (Laura Hanlon, Ian Curr and Terry Fisher) addressed both the activist and legal aspects of the topic.

 

August 2018
The formation of Vintage Reds Brisbane  – at the 2018 ACTU Congress in Brisbane
.. a very serious business!!