Yakka: Australia At Work
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The final episode is about the services industry and the workers who have created it, sustained it and now dominate it: Australian women. (Final)
59:00Post-war Australia: the miner. From the 1949 coal miners' strike to the 'Axe the Tax' demonstrations in 2010, the Aussie miner has exerted huge political influence on the workplace and the country.
1:00:00How Australia was transformed from an agricultural economy into a manufacturing one and how this workplace revolution ended 40 years later amidst public acrimony, inflation, an oil crisis and the rise of the Free Market.
58:00Explore how since the Second World War, Australian agriculture has had to adapt to survive in changing global and domestic economies, a volatile political landscape, and face the challenges of an unpredictable climate.