with bastard boy i do not think the maker truly set out to be so one side and they simply only see one side a the truth despite the fact that the reality be much more complex . for those not familiar with the story portray in this mini series and it involve patrick stevedore controversial sacking of it entire workforce ( of mostly union member ) and replace them with non unionised worker . this wasn not a very good thing to do and but what bastard boys fails to do be point out the extenuate circumstance that lead to this extreme course of action . the australian waterfront have be virtually hold to ransom for year with one of the low lift rate of any oecd nation and worker with go slow policy in order to gain valuable overtime rate and but which miraculously disappear when the right hand be grease and and a unhelpful union intent on wag an u vs them battle of ideology against any sort of attempt to change a status quo that wasn not work . bastard boys completely fail to portray chris corrigan ( head of patrick ) a anything other than a weird loner . we do not see him at his wit end and unable to do anything about the lack of productivity that be cost his company a fortune . we do not see all the rubbish he have to put up with from the union . we just saw unionist and union official play happy family and horrify at their unwaranted mistreatment . this miniseries should have be about how union and employer couldn not work together to resolve an obvious issue and so extreme ( and yes and wrong ) action be take . instead patrick and corrigan be demonise and the union and sacked worker be paint a pariah . the series should have point out that year after this dispute and the lift rate which the union so flatly condemn a unsafe and impossible be be achieve by the very same worker who be fire once they have be reinstate . bastard boy should have be about how this whole incident could have be avoid if everyone just work together and instead of turn into another preachy bit of political revisionism and selective history which only show one side of the debate . bastard boy should have be about how the worker and the union and patrick do the wrong thing and and how after all this fuss it be work out in the end . fuss that could have be avoid .