COVER STORY: Power, strikes and privatisation*

Since the beginning of the year, major industrial disputes – of a type not seen in Australia for about 20 years – have erupted, causing widespread fears that Australia is returning to the ‘bad old days’ of the 1970s, when industrial warfare was a feature of Australian life, causing damage to many industries.Many people, including drnior Federal Government members, thought that the weakening of union power through the growth of unemployment, substantial decline in union membership, and changes to…

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