During the Great Depression, the coal mining town of Wollongong imposed harsh restrictions on free speech and the right to protest. It was an attempt to clamp down on a growing radical workers' movement. Communists led the resistance.
In the 1970s, insurance clerks won equal pay for women by taking militant strike action. To do it, they had to confront conservative a biased arbitration system, timid union officials, and the sexism that pervaded society.
