Yakka: Australia At Work

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  • Premiered: Nov 2023
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • ABC (AU)
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  • Documentary History

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Season 1
1x1
Soil and Toil
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 21, 2023
Explore how since the Second World War, Australian agriculture has had to adapt to survive in changing global and domestic economies, a volatile political landscape, and face the challenges of an unpredictable climate.
1x2
Making a Nation
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 28, 2023
Explore how Australia was transformed from an agricultural economy into a manufacturing one & how this workplace revolution ended 40 years later amidst public acrimony, inflation, an oil crisis & the rise of the Free Market.
1x3
Groundbreakers
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 2023
Post-war Australia: the miner. From the 1949 coal miners' strike to the 'Axe the Tax' demonstrations in 2010, the Aussie miner has exerted huge political influence on the workplace and the country.
1x4 Season finale
At Your Service
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 12, 2023
The final episode is about the services industry and the workers who have created it, sustained it and now dominate it: Australian women.

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