teresa green said:
Regardless of what you believe, the reality is that this dispute has become part of Australia's history. Never before has a strike (or industrial dispute . . ed.) had such a terrible affect. Most strikes went on for a couple of weeks, (and it was normal for the Breweries and Australia Post to go out every Christmas), but this one became The Mother Of All Strikes, and compares only with the one in about 1943 when the Wharfies refused to load ships full of supplies for Australian Troops serving in the Pacific, unless they got paid 'x' amount of dollers. You cannot get much lower than that.
Yes, for you young blokes its boring, boring, boring but when a dispute of this magnitude becomes a life changing event, not just a strike, for the pilots, their families, for all the other people that were sadly involved, the suicides, the marriage breakups, the destruction of families, the parting of friends, it affects the whole country, and that's probably why we need to rabbit on about it sometimes.
Nail on the head again TG. Your post and Captain Sherm's before are among the best summations of the personal side of 89 yet advanced. Here we are, 162 posts in twelve days, and mostly refreshingly calm, reasoned, with telling anecdotal stuff, and only a little ineffectual spray from the Hipshots potting away with their cork rifles.
(I apologise TG for interfering with the above quote to the extent of adding "dispute" to "strike")