The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Television Script.
Most of the characters portrayed are real individuals, many of whom were interviewed in the process of writing the drama. However, a number of characters were invented and events were considerably compressed for dramatic purposes. Notably, the waterside workers portrayed in the drama were composites, based on interviews with many waterside workers.
Bastard Boys tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.
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