Donald Macdonnell as General Secretary, Australian Workers' Union

Secretary, Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia - Bourke Branch, 1893-1899; General Secretary, Australian Workers' Union, 1900-1911

Eight Hour Day - Operative Stonemasons’ Society of Australia’s float

The stonemasons are noted as being the first organised group of workers anywhere in the world to achieve the 8-hour working day with no loss in pay. Posing outside the Royal Agricultural Society’s Sydney showground, the Stonemasons’ contingent displays two banners that proudly affirm this Society’s achievement

Loading docks at Pyrmont Refinery

Until the 1950s sugar was delivered to grocery stores in 70lb bags, then weighed out and put into brown paper bags by the grocer for sale