Meredith Burgmann was a Member of the Legislative Council of NSW (Labor) from 1991 and President from 1999 until 2007. She was then elected as a councillor for the City of Sydney. Previously a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Macquarie University, she was the first woman President of the Academics’ Union in NSW (now NTEU). She was actively involved in the green ban movement and was arrested many times, including for defending the Victoria Street green ban. She wrote her PhD on the Green Bans and has written extensively on industrial relations and women’s issues including as editor of Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO files published by NewSouth in 2014.
Verity Burgmann is Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. She is the author of numerous studies of labour and social movements, including In Our Time (1985), Power and Protest (1993), Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995), Power, Profit and Protest (2003), Climate Politics and the Climate Movement (2012) and Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (2016).
