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3 unusual facts about Dollar Sweets dispute


Dollar Sweets dispute

Peter Stauder sold Dollar Sweets Holding Limited in 1999, which is now called Snack Foods Limited.

By December 1985, it was decided to seek an injunction under common law against the union in the Supreme Court of Victoria, with solicitor Michael Kroger engaging junior barrister and future federal Treasurer Peter Costello hired to represent the company.

Dollar Sweets was a confectionery company in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern employing 27 people on a 38-hour week basis.



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