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Dock spat strands Christmas deliveries
Millions of dollars worth of goods are stranded at the Port of Melbourne, caught up in an escalating dispute between the maritime union and the owners of the first fully automated terminal.
Anna Patty is Workplace Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a former Education Editor, State Political Reporter and Health Reporter. Her reports on inequity in schools funding led to the Gonski reforms and won her national awards. Her coverage of health exposed unnecessary patient deaths at Campbelltown Hospital and led to judicial and parliamentary inquiries. At The Times of London, she exposed flaws in international medical trials.
Millions of dollars worth of goods are stranded at the Port of Melbourne, caught up in an escalating dispute between the maritime union and the owners of the first fully automated terminal.
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