Miners Givin' It to Howard.

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This is what you want from a couple of Aussie blokes:

Great Escape miners urge PM to repeal workplace laws.

From the article:

But politics are always part of life in the national capital. Yesterday, the men who rescued Todd Russell and Brant Webb from the bowels of the earth used the reception for the Beaconsfield miners to urge Prime Minister John Howard to repeal part of his new workplace laws.

He has to have expected that getting a couple of blue-collar guys around for a drink.