Lots of great history lessons here, including some entertaining revisionism
Arthur D,
And what revisionism would that be??
.. really, 30 years later is AFAP still the same organisation?
Unfortunately, the answer is, pretty much: Yes.
And what exactly did AIPA do to support their domestic brethein at that time....
And why would they, and cut their own throats, having warned, in advance, and all too accurately, of the consequences of declaring war on Bob Hawke as Prime Minister.
And everything I have seen and heard in recent years suggests to me that AFAP are very slow learners. Of course, being altogether too close to the mainstream union left in Victoria does not help. I am reminded that, for years, a particular very senior employee of AFAP harbored ambitions to Labor Senate pre-selection for the state of Victoria, which always made many of us very suspicious of his activities.
Tootle pip!!