Max Lane from the Socialist Workers Party on the Broad Left conference held over Easter; Nick Harris on the decision to deregister the BLF; Debbie McIlroy on the Getting Together conference held over Easter; Les Malezer on Aboriginal sovereignty

Norman Ainsworth from Tenants Union; opinion polling on Land Rights; Nick Harris from Builders Labourers’ Federation; Prue Power from Nurses Federation

Adrian Stevens (ACT Trades and Labour Council) on aftermath of Broad Left conference; Pam Reynolds from the BLF on the continuing efforts to organise, despite deregistration and police repression.

A win for the Gurindji; John Westlund on National Gay and Lesbian Conference; Debbie Quarmby from ACF on woodchipping; Helen Stirling from Builders Labourers Federation

Part of the show, including a discussion of the slogan 'stop it both of you' which had been raised regarding the US bombing of Libya. Also an interview with Pam Reynolds from ACT BLF on a hunger strike in Sydney and the recent union meeting at White Industries run by management.

Shorty O’Neil on land rights; Frank Hardy on left politics; Phyllis Daylight on Aboriginal women; Les Malezer on sovereignty and land rights; launch of National Aboriginal Coalition; scrapping of national land rights legislation; a victory for the Gurindji.

Labor’s proposal for ID cards; Phyllis Daylight on the Aboriginal Women’s Taskforce consultation report; Under the Act: Tanya gives a short history of the Queensland Native Labourers Protection Act and the ongoing fight for stolen wages and back pay for Aboriginal workers.

'Work for the dole' scheme pays a quarter of the average wage; discussion of the upcoming national Fightback Conference; update on the lockout in Broken Hill; Hawke’s amendments to Land Rights Act deferred.

Neil McFarlane from ANU Students’ Association; Bob Hawke’s “address to the nation”; industrial roundup; Tanya’s address to the nation; Nick Harris from the BLF re poor safety on site and the BLF response.

Canberra union movement puts a picket on the South African embassy after an embassy official assaulted a protestor; Nick Harris and Yuri Lasic on the BLF struggle; report on ACT Labor conference, where small turnup shows the decay of the party.

Wayne Berry from the firefighters union on why they’re banning the new fire trucks; various segments to mark the ten year anniversary of 2XX, comparing the state of unions, student struggles, and the career of Bob Hawke, from 1976 to 1986.

Adrian Stevens from the Trade Union Rights Committee sums up the attacks on unions in West Australia, especially Robe River, Woodside, and the BLF; student campaign against the attack on free tertiary education in the form of a $250 “administration fee”; statement from Women Against Racism on fighting racism and apartheid in Australia as well as in South Africa.

Discussion on the renewal of woodchipping licenses; Keating announces uranium exports to France; Labor’s hypocrisy on South African Apartheid; racism and clashes in Bourke, NSW, where police are using riot gear.

Jeanette from nurses union on Victorian nurses strike; account of police bashing of Aboriginal people in Canberra; Margaret Matthews from Anti Bases Campaign; Senator George Georges resigns from Labor.

Patrick Tobin from the Conservation Council on woodchip licenses, how woodchipping has destroyed timberworkers’ jobs, and ongoing tensions between conservationists and timberworkers; commentary on the fall in unemployed statistics.

This edition of the Fightback Show features Takeover, Not Merger: The Big White Lie about the upcoming Bicentenary celebrations, featuring prominent Aboriginal activists. Also an interview with Peter O’Dea, secretary of the BLF, coming up to a year since deregistration.

Peter O’Dea from the BLF on the state of unionism – a sub-inflation pay rise is conditional on giving up conditions; Gavin Hillier, the newly elected secretary of the Timberworkers Union, talks about the state of the industry, how the union had worked with the bosses at the expense of its own members, and where the new union leadership could work with conservationists.

Jim Lambley from coal miners union on Queensland anti strike laws; strikes in Wollongong over workers compo; expulsion of Libyan embassy staff; Michael Mansell from Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre on Labor’s attacks.

John Cummins from the Victorian branch of the Builders Labourers’ Federation speaks at a public meeting in Canberra about the recent police raid on the BLF office in Melbourne.

Interview with Arthur Murray reporting on a meeting convened by the Committee to Defend Black Rights in Sydney, for families involved in the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody.

Reports on the protest at the new years’ eve fireworks at parliament house, which kicked off a year of protest against the bicentenary

Campaign against Labor’s attack on free tertiary education via the “Higher Education Administration Charge”. Report from Melbourne re the protest when the Tall Ships for the Bicentenary arrived.