jupiter2, direct your anger at the targets most deserving of your ire – bob hawke, the late, unlamented pytor abeles and not forgetting the man sometimes forgotten in the events of 1989, rarely seen but always ther in the background – Rupert Murdoch. If Hawke had not ILLEGALLY used the military and ILLEGALLY imported foreign pilots and aircraft, the dispute would have been over within weeks.
Paul Keating, as Treasurer, said that Australian had become a ‘Banana Republic’. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of what REALLY went on in 1989, especially the silence of the judiciary and the media TO THIS DAY about the blatant lawbreaking that went on, (and NOT by the pilots), can only say that Keating was making a gross understatement.
Take a look at the currently running “Compass, and the rest” thread to see that these same people went on to ignore the law of the land with impunity to protect Ansett’s position when Compass 1 threatened to topple is rotten foundations in 1991.
Oh, and CitizenXX, the Big Lie doesn’t work on 95% of this audience.