SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on Allan Whittaker’s service dossier NAA: B2455 WHITTAKER ALLAN; his repatriation record NAA: B73 R44423; and the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Allan Whittaker, PROV VPRS24, 1929: 428. The authors gratefully acknowledge the fine eulogies delivered in memory of Allan Whittaker by historian Chris McConville, retired Supreme Court judge Frank Vincent and Martin Foley, MLA, (Member for Albert Park). Thanks are also due to Paddy Garrity, Perce White and Kevin Bracken of the Maritime Union of Australia. For more information on the life of dock workers in Port Melbourne see Wendy Lowenstein and Tom Hills, Under The Hook (Melbourne: Melbourne Bookworkers in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1982); Rhonda Wilson and Sue Formby, Good Talk (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1985). Further background on the Dockers’ strike is provided by David Baker, ‘ “You Dirty Bastards, Are You Fair Dinkum?”: Police And Union Confrontation On The Wharf’, New Zealand Journal Of Industrial Relations, vol. 27, no. 1, 2002, pp. 33–48. For differing assessments of Blamey’s fascist sympathies see Michael Cathcart, Defending The National Tuckshop (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books, 1989); and D. M. Horner, Blamey (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998).