Hairyback says: "Class warfare , labor has managed it in australia."
Class warfare in Australia began in the Great 1890 Depression
that was caused by Upper Class Queensland pastoralists
speculating that Land Boom prices would keep rising.
When land prices crashed, Upper Class pastoralists pushed
austerity pain from their fat bank accounts on to the bent
backs of blade shearers by cutting the price per sheep.
Shearers responded by forming the Queensland
Shearers Union who went on strike for fair pay.
At pastoralists behest Magistrates charged strike
leaders with swearing an Illegal secret oath and
slung them into prison. Britain's Tollpuddle
Martyrs (who formed the first UK union for
poorly paid farm labourers) were charged by
Magistrates with swearing a secret oath of
worker solidarity and transported to Van
Dieman's Land (now Tasmania) and put
in the vile Port Arthur Penitentiary along
with Scots Covenanteers, Irish rebels,
English Chartists, harlots, poachers,
forgers, thieves and vagabonds.
Labor did not begin the Class War.
Upper Class English Gentry did.
The Liberals kept the class war
going with Work (No) Choices.
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