Amongst Equals 1991
"A film about the history of the Australian Trade Union movement – starting with the Shearer’s strike of the 1890’s and leading to the present day."
Overview
Zubrycki’s controversial, provocative and rarely screened documentary about the Australian trade-union movement was originally commissioned by the ACTU and funded by the Bicentennial Authority to provide an audio-visual history stretching from the birth of the movement in the mid-1850s and the formation of the Australian Labor Party to key events like the 1891 shearers’ strike and the 1988 Bicentenary. This pro-union but objective history, focusing on the struggle between capital and labour, and
Director: Tom Zubrycki