They are tired of the whingeing of overpaid financiers, especially foreign ones, and believe the economy has become overexposed to the banking industry.
But even Britain's whingeing Poms have not seen a labour bust-up like Australia's present one since 1986, when Rupert Murdoch, then an Australian, helped smash the British print unions by transferring the production of his newspapers to a non-union plant at Wapping in East London.