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Nasser tells it like it is
It's not quite going from the sublime to the ridiculous - but it's close. Two speeches have captured the national headlines over the past week....
Qantas proved right in resisting unions
Qantas announced changes to its aircraft maintenance arrangements yesterday. The result is 500 staff in Victoria will lose their jobs. The unions...
Get used to a different way of working
Fluid work practices give people control over their destiny, not job insecurity. We expect economic and labour market policies to foster job...
Liberal Labour reform
One of the first acts of an Abbott government should be to repeal the Labor Party's Fair Work Act. Industrial relations reform has a strong...
A challenge for Shorten, IR insider
Bill Shorten is presented with an excellent opportunity to prove himself to be a minister who is not dictated to by the unions. The Australian...
Union militancy just doesn't fly
Qantas is fighting for its life and had no option but to take strong action. The Qantas action to bring its disputes with unions to a head is...
Australians are working less and earning more
ACTU President Ged Kearney announced at the National Press Club the results of a poll of union members grandiosely labelled "The Census". And she...
Union thuggery part of more damaging malaise
Recent allegations of misconduct are a dreadful example of union officials showing disdain for the interests of those they serve, their...
Business lacks courage
Six days into the federal election campaign and Work Choices has dominated the news on five of those days. We know all about Tony Abbott ducking...
Dismissal ruling isn't fair
"Pity the bosses" was the first reaction to the decision of Fair Work Australia a few weeks ago in the case of Paul L. Quinlivan v Norske Skog...