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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.