This included an official trade union march (actually the bulk of the participants) which made what one of the workers decribed to The Age newspaper a "corporate scumbag tour" finishing up at Nike. This was addressed by the newly elected head of the ACTU (equivalent of the TUC) and the head of the Victorian Trades Hall Council. They called for the government to make May 1 a holiday and expressed the intention to make the march a yearly event. Many of the workers involved stopped work to attend, all the main building sites in the city were stopped. This was the first official May 1 rally in Melbourne since World War 2! Maybe we can return to the tradition of the the first May Day march in Australia: 5000 striking shearers in outback Queensland in 1891, all carrying arms!.

and lets not forget the NRKist/autonomist march in the morning....it was probably the exact opposit of what police expect from anarchists, blocking off the streets with singing, dancing, laughing while the sound system pumps out the cheesy 80s pop.

you havent lived till you've seen 500 protestors do the YMCA dance right thru the money end of town. its a sight, believe me, and an experience i'll never forget.

the mayday highlight was definitly the street party, we managed to set up a temporary autonomous zone in one of Melbournes main intersections and hold it for more than 3 hours, looking at the police i could see them thinking "why are we standing out here working while they're in there partying?"