When 2,500 workers seized an island and made history while the world wasn't watching.
Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.
Direction
Raw vérité capturing unscripted worker testimony.
Production
Made on shoestring budget with genuine union access.
Editing
Weaves archival footage with tense occupation moments.
Director
Frances Kelly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cockatoo Island was Australia's largest shipyard; its closure erased 150 years of industrial heritage in Sydney Harbour.
The 1989 occupation came during Hawke's Labor government, exposing the fracture between parliamentary and industrial leftism.
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