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    After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were...
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    The 1891 shearers' strike is one of Australia's earliest and most important industrial disputes. The dispute was primarily between unionised and non-unionised...
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  • the South Australian Shearers Union both merged into the union as new branches in 1888, and the union widened its reach to include shearers across the...
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  • joined with shearers' unions in Bourke and Wagga in New South Wales to form the Amalgamated Shearers Union of Australasia in 1887. In 1894 this union amalgamated...
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    the failure of the 1890 Australian maritime dispute, 1891 Australian shearers' strike, and the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike, were among those who decided...
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    Shearing the Rams is an 1890 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts. It depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed. Distinctly...
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    Harry Chauvel (category Use Australian English from January 2013)
    bring his charges safely to their destination. During the 1894 Australian shearers' strike, the Queensland government enrolled special constables rather...
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  • massacre 1880s–1890s: Arnhem Wars 1890: Speewah massacre 1891: Australian shearers' strike 1894–1897: Jandamarra Guerilla War 1901: The Battle of Racecourse...
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  • In the 1894 shearers' strike sheep shearers in Queensland struck against poor conditions and wages that were being lowered, with the strike broken by...
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    Kynuna Station (category Use Australian English from February 2018)
    that season. Shearing was held up in 1947 after shearers alleged a sheep with scabby mouth was yarded, the animal was quarantined but shearers refused to...
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    Gilbert Casey (category Use Australian English from August 2015)
    first Australian banks and economy crisis of 1890 and the defeat of the Australian unions in the 1890 maritime strike, and 1891 shearers' strike, he preferred...
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  • PS Rodney (category Use Australian English from June 2018)
    the shearer's union and the uncertainties of the Darling flow. Rodney was burnt by unionist shearers during the 1894 Australian shearers' strike in protest...
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    Jondaryan Woolshed (category Use Australian English from October 2014)
    became a test case for the new Queensland Shearers Union in the lead-up to the 1891 Australian shearers' strike. In 1946, Jondaryan Estates, the pastoral...
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    Waltzing Matilda (category Use Australian English from August 2023)
    radio, Paterson wrote that in 1894 the shearers staged a strike by way of expressing themselves, and Macpherson's shearing shed was burnt down, and a man...
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  • Freedom on the Wallaby (category Use Australian English from October 2023)
    Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in The Worker in Brisbane, 16 May...
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  • At its peak, the Station was also home to 3 hotels. During the 1894 shearers strike, workers from the station were involved in a number of violent actions...
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  • Red Dirt – Red Heart (category Album chart usages for Australia)
    events, such as the 1894 Australian shearers' strike and the 1850s Bendigo gold rush. Red Dirt - Red Heart focuses on the Australian interior; indigenous...
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  • Richard Bow (category Use Australian English from August 2021)
    involved in the Barcaldine Strike Camp during the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and was a secretary of the Australian Workers' Union in Central Queensland...
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  • Queensland Council of Unions (category Use Australian English from June 2020)
    great Australian strikes in the 1890s: the 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute, followed by the 1891 Shearers' strike, and the 1894 Shearers strike. A Labour...
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  • Labor Council of New South Wales (category Use Australian English from June 2020)
    of large, unsuccessful strikes including the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers strike. In 1894, the Trades & Labor Council...
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