‘Ignore him at your peril’: The man who runs Queensland
The emergence of Gary “Blocker” Bullock as Labor’s most influential unionist is a story of the rise of the left and the decline of the once-mighty AWU.
Several hundred metres from the seaside at the Gold Coast’s Mermaid Beach is a three storey TriCare facility for the elderly, with a big airy common space dotted by trees next to a busy highway.
It’s where the venerated, and feared, union leader Bill Ludwig passed away almost two years ago. The former shearer turned national president of the Australian Workers’ Union was 87 and had been battling an infection, according to a death certificate filed in court.
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