Victorian Trades Hall

If you're listening in Canberra, Burning Platforms is going to be part of a show at the National Press Club with a number of other podcasts, including What's Your Poison? and the Westminster Tradition on Wednesday, November 25.

And we will also be celebrating Digital Rights Watch's 10th anniversary with a live show at Vic Trades Hall in Melbourne on the evening of Wednesday, December 9.

So we'll put links to those events in the Burning Platform substack that I hope everyone is now signing up to.

In there, we also have a bunch of background material from these discussions and obviously also... a link to Toby's book.

So without further ado, here is Rosie's interview with Gay.

On 6th of March this year, ahead of International Women's Day, eight women held a peaceful protest at the statue of Zelda Duprano, which stands outside the Victorian Trades Hall Council building in Carlton.

It was a simple but powerfully symbolic protest action involving draping an apron on the Zelda statue with the words Difficult Woman printed on it and a message chalked on the footpath saying, The action was inspired by two famous feminist leaders two generations apart.

Zelda Duprano was a leader in the campaign for equal pay and equal rights in the late 60s, early 70s.

So just to finish off, is there anything that our listeners could do to support these women or to support, you know, the...

the cause to stop such repression?

Anything you can suggest? I think if you're a union member, you could be asking your delegates, well, what's going on here? Why was the secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council reporting to the police providing you know so-called evidence over such a when in the scheme of things um it's such a small matter not the issues but the actual act of putting an apron on a statue and writing some words that he didn't like it just seems beyond ridiculous

absolutely and and it's just so bizarre that i believe in his report that he made to the police the eight-page report, he included that they were behaving in an anti-Semitic way when, in fact, they were honouring this woman who happened to be Jewish.

there's a website and you can look up Doon But Worse on the Melbourne French website.

Otherwise, you could just rock up to the Trades Hall.

We're at the Trades Hall this week at 7.30pm. And there's heaps of volunteers there.

All these volunteers are so nice.

And they'll help you grab a ticket and you can come along.