When Senator Eric Abetz was a raw youth of 23, he had what he calls an ‘instructive’ experience. A newly graduated lawyer from Tasmania, he joined the 1985 group in Melbourne (‘troglodytes and lunatics’, according to Prime Minister Bob Hawke) fighting the historic Dollar Sweets case in which a small employer was battling for survival against union bullies and thugs.
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