Published: October 25, 2018
Scott Morrison condemns ‘cocky’ unionists and Kelly O’Dwyer warns of ‘dark days’ - all for workers demanding equal rights
Organisers of the Australian union movement’s “Change The Rules” rallies this week claimed the mobilisations numbered several hundred thousand protestors. Even the unfriendly Herald-Sun was obliged to admit that the crowd overspilling Melbourne’s streets on Tuesday was “up to 150,000” people in size.
These were no strikes, either, but explicitly “political protests”, which participants attended voluntarily, and at personal cost. Industrial strikes are no longer an automatic legal right in Australia, which is a key complaint of the union campaign.
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