Unite Australia: "We hit a lot of rock concerts"
Anthony Main is the secretary of Unite Australia, a union for young fast-food and retail workers drawing inspiration from Unite New Zealand but operating in different conditions. Because of the huge distances in Australia, the labour movement there is more decentralised than in Britain. A union can be left-wing in one state, right-wing in another. Unite Australia operates in Melbourne, where the unions are generally stronger, more combative, and more left-wing than elsewhere in Australia (and the political left is stronger than in other cities). Its initiators were the Socialist Party...