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Wide Comb Reflections - Clip 3
This material is of historical interest and has been uploaded for purposes of scholarship and research. It was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation "Nationwide" program on 2 May 1983. The wide comb dispute is analysed in detail in "Mateship and Moneymaking: Australian Shearing: The clash of union solidarity with the spirit of enterprise 1895-1991" by Rory O'Malley, Xlibris, 2013. This television incident is mentioned on p22-23.
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Wide Comb Reflections - Clip 4
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This material is of historical interest and has been uploaded for the purposes of scholarship and research. It has been extracted from a "60 Minutes" segment broadcast in Australia by Channel Nine on 19th April 1983. Union bullying had long been rife in the shearing industry. The history of the Australian Workers Union dominance of the shearing industry and its demise as a result of the "wide c...
Wide Comb Reflections - Clip 2
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This material is of historical interest and has been uploaded for purposes of scholarship and research. It is extracted from a "60 Minutes" segment broadcast in Australia by Channel Nine on 19th April 1983. Read the article this video is related to at www.shearinghistory.com/wide-comb-reflections/
Wide Comb Reflections - Clip 1
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This material is of historical interest and has been uploaded for purposes of scholarship and research. It is extracted from a "60 Minutes" segment broadcast in Australia by Channel Nine on 19th April 1983. The history of the ban on wide combs and its undoing is told in "Mateship and Moneymaking: Australian Shearing: The clash of union solidarity with the spirit of enterprise, 1895-1995" by Ror...
The Shearers and Rural Workers Union, Australian Shearing, 1995
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This material of historical interest has been uploaded for the purposes of scholarship and research. It was originally broadcast in Australia by Channel Nine's "Sunday" program in 1995. It contains a superb representation of the different cultural attitudes that existed within the Australian shearing industry, and of union and farmer organisations. After a final ruling on the controversial "wid...
The Wide Comb Dispute: Australian Sheep Shearing: 1983
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This video containing material of historical interest has been uploaded for purposes of scholarship and research. It was broadcast in Australia by Channel Nine's "60 Minutes" on 19 April 1983 during a national strike in the shearing industry, making clear the intensity of feelings on both sides. Wide combs (3 1/2 inches) had been legalised on 10th December 1982. The Australian Workers' Union st...

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  • @Thepigfromthepot
    @Thepigfromthepot 11 днів тому

    Fuck the unions

  • @morrisanderson818
    @morrisanderson818 27 днів тому

    Terrible camera work, Should have had a Kiwi using the wide comb, probably shair 2or 3 while those two were talking 😊

  • @MM0IMC
    @MM0IMC 2 місяці тому

    Good old fashioned union protectionism. 🙄 Don't wide combs dominate now? 🤔 Luddites. 🙄

  • @chessman483
    @chessman483 3 місяці тому

    Watching this in 2024 as an X shearer. It’s funny now wool is worth stuff all except gd Merino fine wool.

  • @gregwooldridge8864
    @gregwooldridge8864 4 місяці тому

    I'm using 98mm wide combs the sheep are now huge.

  • @bl688
    @bl688 4 місяці тому

    This is crazy but each side beleived in it

  • @roryomalley349
    @roryomalley349 5 місяців тому

    An Australian team led by Kevin Saare first attended the Golden Shears in 1961.

  • @morrisanderson818
    @morrisanderson818 5 місяців тому

    Good old ausies,kicking one of their own industries, manufacturing,wonder if the Aus company's who made the wide combs were union members,would the sharing union have kicked up a stink, Would love to know,who was the First Ausie to cross the ditch for the golden sheers

  • @karenhubbard1644
    @karenhubbard1644 7 місяців тому

    Once chicken shit always chicken shit. Unions included.dirty deeds done dirt cheep.narrow combs for narrow minds. .

  • @meljane8339
    @meljane8339 7 місяців тому

    How many packs of cigarettes is 36AUD a day back then, now?

    • @shaun469
      @shaun469 Місяць тому

      Whats your point?

    • @meljane8339
      @meljane8339 Місяць тому

      @shaun469 in terms of economics, with cigarettes+beer+sugar+butter(etc), my "point" is regarding standards of normal "rations" (standard commodities rations, witch is millenia-long-accepted standard) [globally accepted] ratios to standard staples [universally accepted].

    • @shaun469
      @shaun469 Місяць тому

      @@meljane8339 cigarettes and alcohol are taxed outside of normal inflation. Probably not a good baseline.

    • @meljane8339
      @meljane8339 Місяць тому

      @shaun469 it's a historic baseline, though. ...

    • @shaun469
      @shaun469 Місяць тому

      @@meljane8339 historic yes. Relevant today? No

  • @williamburns9731
    @williamburns9731 10 місяців тому

    I'm 74yo and the scabs are the union scumbags. Well done whitie ,you're and innovator.

    • @shaun469
      @shaun469 Місяць тому

      The unions are the downfall of the country.

  • @colonelklink8009
    @colonelklink8009 11 місяців тому

    What a bunch of idiots the unions were. I shore all through this and to this day all the clowns causing the the trouble are or were using wide combs in the end..😂😂😂 wankers

  • @evanstevenson2046
    @evanstevenson2046 Рік тому

    No Union. Confederacy Forever!!!

  • @billtyrrell1687
    @billtyrrell1687 Рік тому

    Here from the Adam Friedland show

  • @chessman483
    @chessman483 Рік тому

    The stupid unions were stubborn. The fact that you could earn a lot more shearing with a wide comb.

  • @chessman483
    @chessman483 Рік тому

    So how stupid people are. You can shear more sheep with a wide comb. All that other stuff was rubbish. I’m an extra shearer and most were stupid old coots.

  • @philipthomson7460
    @philipthomson7460 Рік тому

    If a man could shear more sheep and make more money with a wider comb, then why wouldn’t the union just let all the other shearers do the same thing? You know, like normal reasonable people would, in every other workplace? Instead of trying to kill someone over a few fucking millimeters, like these rock-apes did? Together with their union organisers, old Irish boofheads with flat noses and thick ears…to hell with them.

  • @Rusty_coit
    @Rusty_coit Рік тому

    Good to see unions haven’t changed.. the real scabs!!

  • @mikeherbert208
    @mikeherbert208 2 роки тому

    Click goes the shears 😜🤣..Now what using wide combs lol..

  • @Synthetic-Chicken
    @Synthetic-Chicken 2 роки тому

    An extra inch matters

  • @longcraig6657
    @longcraig6657 2 роки тому

    Robots have been shearing sheep since shearing was a thing. Us shearers are the robots!

  • @longcraig6657
    @longcraig6657 2 роки тому

    An nothing changed up until 2020. Thank you covid for doing what the unions couldn't do for us shearers

  • @dazzaoutandabout4870
    @dazzaoutandabout4870 2 роки тому

    What a disgrace by these thugs. Good on ya Bob, your a legend!!

  • @patrickhauraki8713
    @patrickhauraki8713 2 роки тому

    Was silly if they turned the wide comb over ...it was made in Australia

  • @aaronmitchell3252
    @aaronmitchell3252 2 роки тому

    These anti wide comb blokes talking the biggest load of sh!t iv ever heard

  • @videohistorysnippets8963
    @videohistorysnippets8963 2 роки тому

    Love Steve Roachs work.

  • @malbig2344
    @malbig2344 3 роки тому

    08:02 is that Village People?

  • @Jg-eg1hv
    @Jg-eg1hv 3 роки тому

    I remember my uncles talking about this when they came back to New Zealand. Was there a racial overtone to this? My uncles were all big Maoris and they would laugh about fights they would get in.

  • @benjaminstansfield2665
    @benjaminstansfield2665 3 роки тому

    Good

  • @joemurnane2115
    @joemurnane2115 3 роки тому

    The union look like a bunch of thugs

  • @13thbiosphere
    @13thbiosphere 3 роки тому

    25% of shearers were losing their jobs .>>> only way they could have solved this dispute is to have quotas of 150 sheep per day some of the gun shearers could take 400 sheep in a day.>>>

  • @justinpihama3405
    @justinpihama3405 3 роки тому

    Lol ozzies narrow minded😂

  • @mikeherbert470
    @mikeherbert470 3 роки тому

    All that over a Wide Comb ffs 😅😅🤙🏽🤙🏽🤪 grow up ..fk the unions ..Moan asses

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 3 роки тому

    Those sheep are good girls cute sheep nice 👍 videos do you want to watch mine

  • @Artines999
    @Artines999 3 роки тому

    ♥.♥ 19:28 What exactly happened here?

  • @dropkick4440
    @dropkick4440 3 роки тому

    Yea Nah Yea hilarious whinging over a wide comb

  • @andrewmurphy1149
    @andrewmurphy1149 3 роки тому

    No one gets it, it wasnt about shearing, it was about keeping the kiwis iout of Australia.Wide combs are heaps better to shear with and you make more money but the shearing industry is a frigging mess now. Anyone who learnt on wide combs finds it very difficult to shear with narrow gear, thats what kept the new zealanders out of the australian industry. Since wide gear came in the industry has gone to shit. Poor facilities, terrible toilets, unliveale huts and no union. I shear with wide combs but this strike ruined the industry. WE should have just adopted the wide gear like they did in Queensland and found other ways to keep the kiwi scabls out.

    • @peterdykzeul3074
      @peterdykzeul3074 3 роки тому

      Why do you call the Kiwis "Scabs"? They are not to blame for your current working conditions plus there were not enough Australian shearers at that time do do the work load. I was hitch-hiking at that time around the Coastal Highway and several times was told to say nothing in a local pub as there has been brutal fights between the Kiwis and Australians over the wide comb in that town. Most people that gave me a lift told me that many station owners preferred the Kiwi shearers over the Australian as they worked harder, did not work to the clock and so did not leave sheep in the yards over the weekend when an extra hour or two would have finished the work. The biggest irony is that the wide comb the Kiwis used was made in Australia.

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty Рік тому

      @Andrew Murphy One of the few commenters with a brain. Thanks.

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad Рік тому

      Note" no one remembers the AWU bloke with the fancy suit and nice car. ....

    • @maccaspope2275
      @maccaspope2275 Рік тому

      @@trackdusty What a bunch of nonsense. Kiwi's go over and show you fullas a better way of shearing and you complain. Useless bastards

    • @maccaspope2275
      @maccaspope2275 Рік тому

      How tha fuck are Kiwi's to blame for shit huts and toilets on Aussie farms?

  • @rossinnz
    @rossinnz 3 роки тому

    FUC they were ignorant in those days

  • @flanno
    @flanno 3 роки тому

    Shudder to imagine how these blokes would have treated the aboriginal community.

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty Рік тому

      BS. The AWU did a lot for working aborigines. I knew a couple who organised aboriginal labor in the cotton industry.

    • @flanno
      @flanno Рік тому

      @@trackdusty such as?

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty Рік тому

      @@flanno That's private, idiot.

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad Рік тому

      @@flanno Who do you think mustered the flocks? as an example. I never met an aboriginal shearer but I knew a lot employed on the huge cotton farms such as Cubby Station and they were taking home big money.

  • @tobyoneil1969
    @tobyoneil1969 3 роки тому

    Yep, and whats being used today? Plus the fucking Union. Either god sent or a bloody pest.

  • @harryballs112
    @harryballs112 3 роки тому

    I Could use an extra inch

  • @aussiefarmer4955
    @aussiefarmer4955 3 роки тому

    The difference ? easier work and less shearers required over the long haul that means less members( well less $$$) going to the union..bunch of grubs.

  • @Chrarsh101
    @Chrarsh101 4 роки тому

    wow haha what a silly situation

  • @seanodwyer8691
    @seanodwyer8691 4 роки тому

    Royal Prophet//Seer- Sean O'Dwyer- 140 Hobson Street. Auckland City. 1010. new zealand. South pacific.''

  • @ponowaikare489
    @ponowaikare489 4 роки тому

    they would rather us work harder ... now look wider the better now days fukn useless cunts just wasnt cut out to be shearers

  • @geoffreytazprice5091
    @geoffreytazprice5091 4 роки тому

    2020 and they still haven't replaced shearers with robot.

  • @shepherdewan
    @shepherdewan 4 роки тому

    Those sheep are good girls cute sheep nice do you want to watch mine happy 😊 new year 🧧 🧧

  • @joemurnane3425
    @joemurnane3425 4 роки тому

    While the union has fought for decent working conditions and wages, nothing justifies violence especially like this

    • @outdatedfarmequipment2702
      @outdatedfarmequipment2702 2 роки тому

      I agree with that but these coward scabs can make your blood boil.

    • @paulcoffey359
      @paulcoffey359 2 роки тому

      Can't believe the cop laughed about it!

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad Рік тому

      @@paulcoffey359 He wasn't put out back because he was a bright spark.

  • @joemurnane3425
    @joemurnane3425 4 роки тому

    The game has changed since the strike for the better if you ask me

  • @Cruelaid
    @Cruelaid 4 роки тому

    Thank god those communist fools are all gone