Published: December 31, 2018
The 1996-97 cabinet papers are strangely muted on Coalition government’s role in the industrial dispute that reshaped Australia
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During 1996 and 1997, the Howard government was readying for one of the most bruising industrial relations battles in Australia’s history: the 1998 stoush with the Maritime Union of Australia.
The entire workforce of Patrick Stevedores was sacked, a new workforce of mainly ex-military men was brought in to replace them, and month-long pickets slowed movements at all the major ports in Australia.
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