(from the Flinders Journal of Law Reform)

http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/1826/4/Baker%20jaa.pdf

Here's an excerpt:

Having failed to defeat the MUA at the dock gates, the Federal Government reproached some state police forces for 'limp responses' in implementing Supreme
Court orders against the picketers (Age 4 April 1998, p.13). Prime Minister Howard insisted that state police enforce court injunctions against picketers delaying cargo on Sydney and Melbourne wharves and branded open defiance of the law as 'very unsatisfactory' (Millett et al. 1998). Victorian Premier Kennett, in private talks with Police Command, insisted that the blockade be broken (Age: News Extra 9 December
2000). Della Porta (1996, p. 29) conjectures that in Europe, 'police forces will fulfil demands by the government', overriding democratic rights of protest. But this certainly did not occur during the 1998 Australian dispute.