StallBoy..boohoo. I thought it was us Poms who whinged! What planet are you from? Australia and the US are two of the countries on earth where you still can do very well without interference from 'the establishment'. In those countries, people who use 'The Establishment' as the cause of their ills are just making excuses for their own shortcomings. Being a slave,in Australia! Good grief man - get a dose of reality will you. You have an excellent minimum wage scale and a good social security system. Go to China one day and you will stop your whining. Even in my country, the influence of the establishment has wained significantly. In the old days we never would have allowed the likes of Branson and Al Fayed to rise to the top.
That grubby little PM you had there in '89 simply screwed the pilots for his own ends and that of a wealthy mate. Complete misuse of government power it was but it was hardly a case of evil intent from 'the establishment'.
We dont have that TV show here, but did that Hawke chap cry again? He seems to do that a bit.