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Australia - first in the world to institute a 40 hour working week, first to say there was such a thing as a fair and reasonable wage. Conditions like these helped win Australia its reputation as the mythical land of the long weekend. Yet today, for those with work, overtime has increased and penalty rates are disappearing. The nation's population is increasingly divided between the over-worked and the under-employed. Now that Australia is more the land of the level playing field than the land of the long weekend, have we abandoned the idea of the 'fair go'?

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Crew

Director
Sue Brooks
Writers
Sue Brooks  Alison Tilson
Producer
Susan Ardill
Executive Producers
Sharon Connolly
Dir. of Photography
Nicolette Freeman

Cast

Kieran Perkins - Julian Disney - Professor Belinda Probert - Kate Gillick (narrator)

Production Details

Production Completion
1994
Genre
History and national identity, Social contemporary
Production Company
Film Australia Limited