Just in case the Government might run out of attack points in Parliament this week, Malcolm Turnbull has decided to exhume the rotting corpse of WorkChoices to see how badly it smelt.
Australian workplace agreements
Rollback on AWAs? Sure. Rollback on unfair dismissal laws? Um…
Are the ACTU suspicious of the new government? They might have good reason to be, writes Christian Kerr.
Generational change Coalition-style
So yesterday it was not a 50 year-old Peter Costello who became Leader of the Opposition but the 49 year-old Dr Brendan Nelson, with the 51 year-old Julie Bishop as his offsider. Not much sign of generational change there, writes Richard Farmer.
Crikey Policy Comparison Pt 11: Industrial Relations
If you’re looking for a major difference between the parties, this is it. As the government continues to defend its controversial WorkChoices policy, and the Fairness Test that it later introduced, the ALP have made the abolition of AWAs a central tenant of their campaign, with a little help from the highly successful Your Rights At Work. This is an issue with cut through, and there’s a chasm of difference between the Coalition and ALP. And while there may be a certain jitteryness in business circles about the implications of a new Rudd government, the big bad WorkChoices line from the ALP seems to have hooked Howard’s battlers back to their camp. Read on, and mind the gap.
WorkChoices: Government no longer massages the truth; it lies
Disliked by the public since the day it was announced, but pursued relentlessly nonetheless, WorkChoices has played a key role in the unpopularity of the federal government and its likely sinking at the forthcoming election, writes David Peetz.
Socialist pedigree of the other WorkChoices academic
Recently, academic John Buchanan was exposed as anything but politically impartial. Readers may be interested to find out that David Peetz, a Professor of Industrial Relations at Griffith University, and the other academic involved with the recent and highly questionable study on WorkChoices, is another socialist bitterly opposed to labour market reform.
Time to end ministers’ defamation protection
We saw an example of the gay abandon with which politicians can defame yesterday when Joe Hockey and Peter Costello disparaged a report by Sydney University academics in to Australian Workplace Agreements.
Government offers university a choice: AWAs or unemployment
The federal government appears to be putting pressure on universities to only hire staff on the controversial Australian Workplace Agreements, writes Geoff Maslen.
