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Did you know... that Royal Australian Navy commissioned the bulk carrier Jeparit in 1969 to overcome union protests against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War?

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HMAS Jeparit - Union problems[edit]

I served in HMAS Jeparit as a junior engineer officer - Merchant Navy for 5 trips in 1971, sailing with the RAN contingent. It was a very happy and fulfilling arrangement and many of us, RAN and MN types, have maintained a close friendship in the half century that has passed since our Vietnam days.

It is not widely known but it was only the Seamens Union of Australia, a Moscow aligned organisation that banned the vessel. There were 6 other unions representing the deck and engineer officers, radio officer, shipwright, cooks and stewards serving in the vessel. We were supplying Australian servicemen who needed our support. They were our mates, brothers and sons. We owed them and did our best. We copped abuse from some of those in the anti-war movement and the members of the SUA who toed their party line.

The SUA doesn't exist any longer and only the two unions representing deck and engineer officers continue. The SUA has morphed into a tiny sub-group of another militant union, the CFMEU.

Peter Burge