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The original was posted on /r/australia by /u/Cockylora123 on 2023-11-06 11:39:12.

Original Title: Why not a word anywhere about the centenary of the 1923 police strike in Melbourne? The centenary was a few days ago. It was one of the most dramatic confrontations in Australian labour history. For a few days the city was in riot. A citizens militia was raised against the cops. Yet bugger-all.

From Wikipedia. “In November 1923, on the eve of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, half the police force in Melbourne went on strike over the operation of a supervisory system using labour spies, nicknamed “spooks”. Riots and looting followed as crowds poured out of the main Flinders Street railway station on the Friday and Saturday nights and made their way up Elizabeth and Swanston streets, smashing shop windows, looting, and overturning a tram.” And much more. Is this the sort of non-heroic history we Australians prefer to ignore?