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3 December 2016

9:00 AM

3 December 2016

9:00 AM

‘Free beer for all the wharfies when the red revolution comes’

 

When Chris Corrigan’s 1998 stevedore revolution changed the Australian waterfront forever, the wharfies, unlike this old lefty song, got redundancies rather than free beer. As then PM John Howard wrote of Corrigan, ‘Without his courage and strength waterfront reform would not have been achieved’.

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