Answer the following about Emma Miller, an activist known as “Mother Miller” for her involvement in a variety of labor agitations in Australia, for 10 points each.
[10m] Miller was present at the “Tree of Knowledge” in Barcaldine, where the Australian Labor Party’s forerunner was formed during “great” strikes of workers in this industry. The Mesta was a guild in this industry.
ANSWER: wool industry [or sheep industry; accept the Shearers’ Strike; prompt on livestock, shepherding, herding, or similar answers; prompt on shipping or answers like longshoremen or dockworkers by asking “unions in those industries were specifically backing workers in what other industry in the 1891 and 1894 strikes?”]
[10e] Later in life, Miller campaigned against conscription for this conflict, which led to a split in the labor party under Billy Hughes. Australian participation in this conflict prompted the establishment of Anzac Day.
ANSWER: World War I [or WWI, First World War, or Great War]
[10h] During a 1912 general strike led by tram workers in this city, Miller took out a woman-beating police chief by stabbing his horse’s butt with a hatpin. The “Hillbilly Dictator” Joh Bjelke-Petersen (“B’YELL-kuh Petersen”) was based in this city.
ANSWER: Brisbane
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