Clerk (to Workingman): So you are to have a college [the Working Men's College - RMIT]; let me congratulate you. You are indeed a lucky fellow - eight hours a day labour, wages three pounds a week, dress how you like, and half Saturday to yourself. My salary is a pound a week for twelve hours a day, six days a week, and must dress in broad-cloth. Why wasn't I born a workingman?

- 'The Workingman' in Melbourne Punch, 1882