The power of the unions has always been a huge battleground for Labor and the Coalition.

Now there are revelations about the role the former Prime Minister John Howard and his ministers really played in one of the biggest, most divisive industrial disputes in Australia’s history. 

In April 1998 Patrick Stevedores dismissed and locked out 1400 wharfies from their worksites, planning to install an alternate non-union workforce. 

Today, Jan Fran host of the podcast series Conspiracy? War on the Waterfront on what was hidden from the public until now. 

For the whole series, look for Rewind on the ABC Listen app.

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Jan Fran, host of Conspiracy? War on the Waterfront