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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Enemies
Description: The co-opting of history to suit people's own ideas is not new … on the labour side as well as on the bosses side. I have fought against this all my life. For example Tom Zubryki made a film about the SEQEB dispute called 'Friends & Enemies' but the reality was the strike committee led by Bernie Neville, in the end only had enemies.
Those enemies were the governments of Petersen and Hawke, the media, the bosses, the ACTU led by Simon Crean, the Electrical Trades Union in Qld led by Neal Kane, and even sections of the Left kept telling the wo...