When he was appointed to the judging panel for the PM’s Literary Awards Gerard Henderson said he would have no problem rejecting a work on the grounds of its political opinion or content being different to his and the government’s. One of the other Judges is a former Liberal MP, The winner in the history section is a work the writer describes as “the untold story of a war waged by maritime unionists against their own society and servicemen from 1939-45, by targeting every major Australian warship with strikes, go-slow actions and sabotage that left combat crews without food and equipment. Their actions were said to be a calculated attempt by Communist union leaders to sabotage the war effort.” Mike Carlton, who is also a Naval Historian described it as, “a right-wing rant against Australian trade unions, an ideological tract that includes errors, hearsay, exaggeration and in some cases sheer fiction and fantasy. History it is not.
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