Concrete Gang - 30th October 1977 program

Note: the static in the start of this recording clears up after the first minute or so, and certainly before the end of the last song. Thanks again to dedicated listeners who recorded the early Concrete Gang episodes for us to revisit today.

• SONG: ‘Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy’ Leadbelly cover by Pete Seeger.

• Hot weather and hot air coming out of the old gasworks in Canberra, with another election on the agenda - the fourth in five years.

• Incoming Governor General Zelman Cowen’s significant payrise.

• SONG: ‘The Maryborough Miner’ by A.L. Lloyd

• Herald article by Public Works Minister Roberts Dunstan on the BLF, discussing the Arbitration Commission and working class actions with recent and heartening industrial action from parking inspectors and tramways workers refusing to issue fines and collect fares at work.

• SONG: ‘Land Where The Crow Flies backwards’ by Gary Shearston (originally by Doug Young), dedicated to those at the Arbitration Court up at Little Lonsdale Street.

• Discussion of media bias with example of uranium in the news, following the recent resignation of “outside” directors from the Herald & Weekly Times group with personal and financial investments in the uranium mining industry.

• Anti working-class publications rife. Willie discusses some articles.

• Gang discuss the growing number of working class waking up, upcoming rally and concert of the Australian Independence Movement.

• SONG: ‘Better World A-Comin’’ by Woody Guthrie.

Presenters: ‘Willie’, ‘Mario’, ‘Gabby’, and more.

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