These photos were originally posted in three groups to Melbourne Indymedia as part of that site’s extensive coverage of the event (accessible in part at http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20051201023811/http://melbourne.indymedia.org/)Coverage formerly posted on the website of Trades Hall Council is unfortunately no longer available.
Federation Square before the start
Do I make myself clear? – ASU placard outside St Paul’s
Staff from Slater & Gordon
FairWear outside the Town Hall. Outworkers are set to be among the hardest hit by the removal of what protections they have
Sharan Burrow. Supplementary screens were set up along the route for those unable to get as far as the Square to watch the hook-up. “We must not be the first generation of Australians to leave our children with less rights than we inherited, and we won’t be.”
Women’s Health West. Also waiting outside the Town Hall
State Indigenous Employees
Fairfield Primary School. One of scores of schools represented, making their way down Swanston Street for the start of the march
Australian Labor Students … wonder if they chose the spot on purpose?
Same again, further up Swanston Street
Health Services Union, marching down Swanston Street to join the rally in a great show of force, led by a piper and drum
Followed a little later by the AMWU, who arrived via Lonsdale Street before turning down Swanston Street in numbers that would have made a very respectable march just by themselves
Start of the march
Group 2 – some from Swanston street, mostly in LaTrobe – starting with a familar figure:
Martin Kingham and others on the march
Vehicle workers. The AMWU and especially the vehicle workers and Qantas maintenance workers were a major presence
The MUA, definitely here to stay
A large contingent of firefighters as always, with their familiar splendid banner
New Zealand bank workers. A message of solidarity with Australian comrades
Victorian Psychologists Association
Princes Hill Secondary College, closely followed by the CPA. There was no counting the number of schools represented, and the total number of staff present must have run into thousands
Job Watch
Nurses or politicians? Not hard to answer
The prospect for the upcoming generation
One possible solution?
Group 3 – more pics taken on LaTrobe Street during the march – starting with ‘someone’ waiting on the corner
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A protest from the Greek community
Probably treasonable?
This poster appeared at various spots on the route
