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Employers could be lost in dark legal tunnels
Substantial commentary on the Fair Work Bill is now on the public record. Lines of division have emerged, expressed by key players in the public...
Business plays the patsy
What are business organizations for? Do they exist so their chief executives can sit on government advisory boards and have afternoon cocktails at...
Unions, not workers, the real winners from IR changes
The Australian union movement is probably the most aggressive in the developed world. It moral table-thumps, insisting its position, and only its...
Victoria must position itself to dodge NSW fallout
Anyone who was living in Victoria in the early 1990s understands the pain of a severe economic recession. Its severity was largely the result of...
Labor's choice an unfair work in progress
Introducing the new industrial relations package this week Julia Gillard had a tough job. The minister was aware that unions account for only 12...
New laws change the way the workplace works
Forward with Fairness has finally arrived. At 613 pages it will take some time to digest the implications. First impressions reveal something new...
Machine culture rotten to core
Is the NSW Government totally dysfunctional or is it just suffering from a series of disconnected unfortunate events? The list of events is long...
New IR law contains unnecessary risks
So far the Rudd government's Forward with Fairness policy has been debated in the context of what it is not. That is, it's not Work Choices. Also...
The system suffers when everyone has somewhere to hide
This global financial crisis is testing to extremes every idea and tool economic regulators possess. But regulators don't demonstrate any...