The focus today is on new ministers and the new Liberal leadership team. But what about the people who do the leg work – the staff? Christian Kerr looks at their options.
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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.
Flint: New book explodes WorkChoices myths
A new book examining WorkChoices explodes some myths about IR system, including the misconception that it replaces a system which worked well. The old system was appalling and had to go, writes David Flint.
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.
Just who’s advising the PM?
Yesterday the Galaxy Poll suggested the Prime Minister’s campaigning on Labor’s links to unions is falling on deaf ears. So what did he do?
