Recent publications in Submission
Submission to the Inquiry into the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011
Submission to the Inquiry into the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011
Submission to the Senate inquiry into the Fair Work Bill 2008
1) Executive Summary In summary, the bill: a) seeks to rewrite Australian unions into the processes of workplace relations law. b) attempts to create a model of workplace relations which...
Submission to the Wilcox Review of Australian construction industry reforms
The ABCC was set up in 2005 as a specialist construction industry enforcement body. It was a key part of the recommendations of the Cole Royal Commission (2002-03) which found wide scale and systemic lawlessness in the construction sector across...
The Cost of Constructing the Commonwealth Games Village
This report forms part of the IPA's submission to the Wilcox Review into the ABCC. Part 1 is available here. This report reveals that contractual arrangements put in place by the Government of Victoria inflated the cost of the Commonwealth Games...
Submission to the National Review of Occupational Health and Safety Laws
Submission to the review into Comcare
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2007
WorkChoices has been a politically contentious reform to workplace relations in Australia primarily because the Australian union movement has run a successful marketing campaign against the reforms.
IPA Submission to the New South Wales Review of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000
The IPA has identified numerous faults in the NSW OHS laws.