
Issue No 92		20 April 2001

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If you are not busy saving the workers compensation scheme, check out the Eveleigh Community Weekend.

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the workshop buildings that flank Redfern Station?

The Eveleigh locomotive workshops are now home to the Australian Technology Park (ATP), a leader of developments in technology and science across the country. The workshops were or at the forefront of 19th century steam technology, employing hundreds of thousands of people from across Sydney and the state.

To celebrate the National Trust's 2001 Heritage Festival, the ATP in conjunction with the Powerhouse Museum, will be opening the former Eveleigh locomotive workshops to the public one of the most significant sites of industrial heritage in Australia. The whole family will enjoy exhibitions and events celebrating the diverse communities involved in the development of Eveleigh, and its current incarnation as the ATP

PROGRAM OF EVENTS

Theatrette, Bay 4, invitation only

11.00 am

Mr Alan Madden from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council will make a traditional welcome to the land followed by a smoking ceremony.

Mr Kevin Moss MR Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport, will officially open the weekend and launch the video 'Steam Power', produced by Dr Lucy Taksa from the University of NSW and Summer Hill Media.

11.30 pm 12.30 pm

Theatrette, Bay 4

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

Free

The weekend will open with the launch of the video 'Steam Power', which goes behind the scenes and follows the development of the Eveleigh railyards and the people who worked there. 'Steam Power' will be screened throughout the weekend as part of a festival featuring archival films from Film Australia.

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm Free

The Powerhouse Museum will be exhibiting several piece technology tracing the history of transport.

INNOVATION PLAZA

Governor General's Carriage

The highlight of the display will be the Governor General Carriage built at Eveleigh in 1901. View inside the three bedroom carriage issued to transport the Governor Gene and the Duke of Cornwall (later King George V) around NSW for the Federation celebrations.

EXHIBITION HALL

Abbot Buggy - Popular in both Australia and America during the mid-19th century, the 'Abbot' was a low cost, stylish alternative to the expensive and cumbersome English carriages of the time.

Solar Resource Solar Car Find out how this Australian designed and built solar-assisted car traveled 3,000 km between Darwin and Adelaide.

Aveling & Porter Steam Wagon - Discover why the steam wagon reigned supreme over the internal combustion engine for road haulage in the five tonne class from the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th century.

Vice-Regal Rolls Royce - See the ultimate in automotive engineering and

luxury.

Corby Starlet Ultralight Aircraft - Marvel at the post-war Australian designed single-seater aircraft, which took fourth place in a 1964 world wide design competition for small racing aircraft.

Tours start at Innovation Plaza near the Governor General's Carriage

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

12.00 pm, 2.00 pm, 3.00 pm, 40 mins duration

Free

Take a tour of the locomotive workshops including an inspection of heritage tools and machinery. Visit the Large Erecting Shop, see restoration work in progress on locomotive 3265 and talk to some of the volunteers involved. As you wander through the buildings, see how the once busy workshops have been transformed into the state of the art Australian Technology Park.

Eveleigh Employee Register

Bay 4 Atrium

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

All weekend, former employees are invited to come along and catch up with fellow workmates and their families. The Eveleigh Employee Database, will also be available for all former employees and their relatives to search and they can add details to the Eveleigh Employee Register launched at the 1999 by the NSW Premier, the Hon. Bob Carr for Dr. Lucy Taksa.

Bays I & 2

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

Free

One of the traditional trade practices used by blacksmiths at Eveleigh will be demonstrated throughout the weekend by 'Wrought Artworks', who operate the historical blacksmithing workshop. Tours of the operating machinery will also be available over the weekend.Performed by the Folk Federation - Exhibition Hall

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

2.00 pm- 4.00 pm Free

Enjoy a wide repertoire of songs retelling history and stories of railway

workers and union solidarity.

Public Heritage Who Cares

Room 7ABC

Sunday 22 April

2.00 pm

Free

What are your views? The History Council of New South Wales invites you to join their forum to discuss this debate.

When you need a pit stop between events and exhibitions there will be a range of food to cater for all tastes.

Innovation Plaza

Saturday 21 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

Sausage sizzle

Bay 8

Saturday 21 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

Cafe food

Innovation Plaza

Sunday 22 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

Noodle Market with its own brand of entertainment.

Bay 4, Atrium

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

An exhibition of photographs taken by Monika Allen (who taught

English to migrant employees at Eveleigh), records the working life of

those employed in the carriage workshops during the mid-1980s.

Exhibition Hall

Saturday 21 April, Sunday 22 April

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

Special interest groups, local community organisations and labour unions will be sharing their collections and information and will be available to answer all your questions on model railways, heritage and even family history.

Enjoy an exhibition on the people and industry of South Sydney and 'Trains of Treasure': a music, song, poetry and visual history of working life on Australian Railways.

Performed by Party Line

Begins in the Innovation Plaza

Saturday 21 April & Sunday 22 April

1.45 pm

Free

Sydney based performance group Party Line will present two special performances of DIVAS, originally produced in 1996 for the Melbourne International Festival.

Party Line were residents at the ATP throughout March, preparing for their latest project 'Steel Fracture' - an installation based performance event taking art out of the gallery and theatre and into a living, dynamic urban environment.

For further information about the Eveleigh Community Weekend call (02)

9209 4428.

www. atp.com.au www. phm.gov. au

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Issue 92 contents

Interview: Beyond the Accord
Simon Crean cut his teeth in the trade union movement, now he's gearing up to run the economy.

Politics: In Defence of Della�s List
The proposition that trade unions should ask members of the ALP for a commitment that they uphold Party policy should hardly be controversial.

Corporate: The Real Rorters
The unspoken sore of the WorkCover Scheme is non-compliance by employers. None more so that in the construction industry, as this CFMEU paper details.

Legal: In the Real World
Lawyer Ross Goodridge exposes the defficincies in the new medical assessment guidelines for workers compensation by looking at real case studies.

International: The Docklands and Global Labour
Ma Wei Pin and Jasper Goss recount how the struggle of a group of Indonesian hotel workers effected a lucrative Melbourne contract.

History: Sweatshops in America
Since the dawning of the Industrial Revolution, many generations of Americans have toiled in sweatshops.

Unions: Losers Never Start
At the end of her six week vigil, Grenadier delegate Michelle Booth gave her heartfelt thanks to the trade union movement.

Review: Working Classes: Global Realities
The Socialist Register 2001 looks at class realities and the lives of workers in the new century.

Satire: Democrats Change Leader
The Democrats have a new leader after belatedly discovering that Meg Lees had become the second Democrats leader in a row to defect to another party.

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