Archived publication for 2004
Recent publications
The Foccacia
Business and the ALP
NAIRU Bound
Balancing the Acts: The applicability of commercial legal environments for employment relations. Is the balance right?
Balancing the Acts: The Practical Consequences of the 'Bargain' [Volume 2]
The Strange Return of the Industrial Relations Club
This latest report from the Unit is far-reaching in that it brings together all the elements that show why the formal industrial relations system is systemically failing Australians. All the players have dropped the ball.
One Image, Two Pictures: Hal Clough Lecture 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen It's an honour as a creature from a land far to the East to be in Western Australia, a land that perhaps can be described as the 'Middle Earth' of entrepreneurship in our vast continent. Since the Second World War, the name...
A Casual Discussion: Happy being casual
The campaign to curb the growth of casual employment currently being waged in some sections of the labour movement relies on shaky evidence. Unions claim that casual employees suffer from greater insecurity and economic stress due to irregular...
A Casual Discussion: Casual alternative wrongly demonized
The proposals to give casuals holiday and other entitlements, reflects a long held view that any work that is not full time and not permanent is somehow illegitimate. This is a view that ignores simple mathematics, appears out of step with...
A Casual Discussion: The need to redefine casual employment
In the brave new world of work in Australia, the biggest concern for working people is security or more accurately the lack of it. Gone are the days of a job for life in one company. People are working for shorter periods with more employers....