It was the former head of the ACTU, Bob Hawke - the same Labor PM who organised "the Accord" which effectively stopped union wage growth for several years.
wobbles,
That was a situation on par with war, that's how bad it was. None of it helped the collapse of ANSETT though & the many thousands of employees.

SM, Stalinist Lee told Commie Paul that Brown Eye Bob told her that an asylum seeker name Mo told him that business was ripping off the GST to the tune of $13,000,000,000. Can't be a porker cause Mo don't eat pork!
So you don't jump on your high horse the above is not true, I made it up, not the $13 billion, but the other stuff.
p/s If you need your wagon fixed I know this mechanic who will do a cheap job, no receipt, give you a quote instead. If you need a plumber or tradie of any kind its less for cash.

Paul,

Just need a shovel to remove the excrement you left on this thread.

P.S. check the figures you post. $13bn loss on GST is ludicrous.

Paul you contributions are no longer lucid they attract fly,s but are not related to truth.
I wish to explain my self.
While the thread said Unions, I hope my links show both Party and Union is one clearly.
Once the link, between trade union and government is insulted and miss used, some times very much more than is current here, only change can help.
Ignore if you must.
EVERY SIN of my movements is mirrored or has been in Conservative politics, the links are to bigger interests and involve much the same, self interested pigs.
My task is to scream the truth endlessly in to my movements ears, both the truth and these words.
*Thou are not a God*
If we look at Paul,s workers paradise the Soviet Union and its slave states we see the damage unions can do, if not true Representatives of workers.
Heads, of both unions and politics, living the high life on the back of those they enslave.
Even America, in the case of SOME unions, is seeing CRIMINALS prospering on the back of,or under cover of unions.
I never want SOLIDARITY to cover such true filth in my country.
The Union movement is mostly far from that.
But even I once claimed total ownership of the ALP by the right wing of the union movement.
How very wrong I can get.
I without sarcasm, again remind posters I live and breath my passion for excellence in both unions and party.
But tell it as I see it, no improvement without a broom.
I fear the hand that held the knife wishes to hold the broom, and am unsure such an act should get such a reward.
Maybe a newer poster may take up the unanswered challenge, to look honestly at Liberalism and its faults, older posters found it beyond them.

Well we have stalled.
Such threads do.
But the brighter of us know in their very DNA this country needs a strong ALP and A strong Liberal/Conservative party too.
I stand by my thought Labors rule is coming to an end.
Only Tony Abbott can save us.
But in my mind, looking back from a point in time after that defeat, this is what I see.
Open debate blaming the Rudd execution.
The same about the shocking HSU,
True debate about the roll of power brokers and the Sussex street Mafia/filth currently being judged before NSW anti corruption council.
How long before Labor can comeback after that?
Power brokers see a different sight.
Like me they know Abbott will be Newman on steroids!
And that he is going to flop.
They, power brokers, unlike me, think we only need wait.
Blind mice that that are, I DEMAND change, demand never again.
Let those who lead workers, and Labor, lead because their heart rules not pocket!

SM I'm sticking to my 13 bill. What's your number?
"Paul,s workers paradise the Soviet Union and its slave states. we see the damage unions can do, if not true Representatives of workers."
Belly you don't need to go that far to see the damage unions can do, if not true Representatives of workers. A bit closer to home, take a look at the AWU in the 1990's full of conservative sell outs and Uncle Tom's masquerading as union officials