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	<title>Crikey &#187; industrial relations</title>
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		<title>Keane&#8217;s guide to the year in political garbage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/09/keanes-guide-to-the-year-in-political-garbage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/09/keanes-guide-to-the-year-in-political-garbage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Will 2012 see an improvement in the quality of public debate? Don't count on it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Retail and building data stick to the two-speed trend</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/01/retail-and-building-data-stick-to-the-two-speed-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/01/retail-and-building-data-stick-to-the-two-speed-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=262664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A slew of economic data confirms existing trends in the economy -- and it's not all bad outside the mining sector.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The long tradition of union &#8216;interference&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/09/the-long-tradition-of-union-interference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/09/the-long-tradition-of-union-interference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Relations Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=258047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of IR reform claim unions traditionally haven't been allowed to "interfere" in issues such as contracting out. Wrong.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The remorseless logic and profound disdain of Alan Joyce</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/the-remorseless-logic-and-profound-disdain-of-alan-joyce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/the-remorseless-logic-and-profound-disdain-of-alan-joyce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industrry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=255895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas is prepared to threaten the Australian economy and thus has the government over a barrel. But it's confirming Australians' growing resentment of corporations.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/the-remorseless-logic-and-profound-disdain-of-alan-joyce/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>140</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is the jobs forum a summit in search of a problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/is-the-jobs-forum-a-summit-in-search-of-a-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/is-the-jobs-forum-a-summit-in-search-of-a-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Employers and unions are unlikely to have much of a dialogue at the jobs forum in a few weeks. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Searching for truth on productivity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grattan Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=245441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For journalists willing to do some work, it's easy to check whether the link being made between IR deregulation and labour productivity stands up.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>The return of protectionism: the gang&#8217;s all here</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/the-return-of-protectionism-the-gangs-all-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/the-return-of-protectionism-the-gangs-all-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Ridout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make or break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Howes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=243878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Protectionism is alive and well and has strong allies in the public policy arena.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/the-return-of-protectionism-the-gangs-all-here/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Demise of a once loved brand</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/crikey-says-demise-of-a-once-loved-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/crikey-says-demise-of-a-once-loved-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=241281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas was, once, more than just an airline to most Australians -- it was part of the national character. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/16/crikey-says-demise-of-a-once-loved-brand/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>How does the current docks dispute compare to &#8217;98?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/26/crikey-clarifier-how-does-the-current-docks-dispute-compare-to-98/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/26/crikey-clarifier-how-does-the-current-docks-dispute-compare-to-98/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 03:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime Union of Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MUA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Stevedores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waterfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does the current docks dispute stack up with the savage industrial war of 1998? To get a handle on all things waterfront, <em>Crikey</em> spoke with workplace relations expert Professor Andrew Stewart from the University of Adelaide.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another bad week for the IR reform crowd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/20/another-bad-week-for-the-ir-reform-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/20/another-bad-week-for-the-ir-reform-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 03:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Average Weekly Earnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Price Index]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=224384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wages data keeps stubbornly refusing to reveal the wages blowout we've been warned about for months.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/20/another-bad-week-for-the-ir-reform-crowd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Facebook bullies of NSW Corrections &#8212; one victim&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/11/the-facebook-bullies-of-nsw-corrections-one-victims-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/11/the-facebook-bullies-of-nsw-corrections-one-victims-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrective services NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=202840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The prison officers who have been elevated to martyr status with their heroic group nickname The Facebook 6 used the site to bully staff. I should know – I am one of their victims, writes <b>Candace Sutton, former Labor advisor and freelance journalist</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>So&#8230; just why do we need IR reform again?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/so-just-why-do-we-need-ir-reform-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/so-just-why-do-we-need-ir-reform-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We're told time and again that we need more IR reform. But no one ever says why.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/so-just-why-do-we-need-ir-reform-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>Working on Abbott&#8217;s IR laws</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/abbott-will-be-selling-out-liberal-values-if-he-fails-to-take-a-stand-on-industrial-relations/story-e6frg9if-1225934559845</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/abbott-will-be-selling-out-liberal-values-if-he-fails-to-take-a-stand-on-industrial-relations/story-e6frg9if-1225934559845#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How Tony Abbott deals with industrial relations could decide his political future, declares <b>Peter van Onselen</b>. Will Abbott ignore one of the foundations of the Liberal Party?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s amateur hour at Tony&#8217;s house</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-waves-white-flag-on-labour-reform/story-fn59niix-1225894775175</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-waves-white-flag-on-labour-reform/story-fn59niix-1225894775175#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=155215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four days into the federal election campaign and IR is the topic of the day. But it seems that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his party have been caught on the hop, appearing like amateurs and willing to give up a generational-long commitment by the Liberal Party to labour market reform, writes <b>Paul Kelly</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>American Apparel: now even sleazier</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2010/06/american-apparel-has-a-full-body-head-to-toe-employment-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2010/06/american-apparel-has-a-full-body-head-to-toe-employment-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=145377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American Apparel has got in trouble before for firing unattractive staff. Now they've gone one further, with staff hiring now reliant on providing head-to-toe photos of potential employees.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.defamer.com.au/2010/06/american-apparel-has-a-full-body-head-to-toe-employment-policy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>New York to become pro-nanny state</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/nyregion/03nanny.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/nyregion/03nanny.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[employment conditions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=143544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nannies and other domestic workers in New York look set to receive a fairer shake of the sauce bottle, with new legislation designed to improve employment conditions. Is this the end of  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nanny_Diaries"><em>The Nanny Diaries</em></a> style exposés?]]></description>
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		<title>Foil insulation: a lot less scandalous than you may have heard</title>
		<link>http://inside.org.au/a-mess-a-shambles-a-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://inside.org.au/a-mess-a-shambles-a-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Garrett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The media narrative that the Government's foil insulation scheme was a total disaster is a massive oversimplification -- one which ignores history and mathematics, says <b>Rodney Tiffen</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Why coffee in the office is more important than you might think</title>
		<link>http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2010/03/08/smallb1.html?b=12680244002977961</link>
		<comments>http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2010/03/08/smallb1.html?b=12680244002977961#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The choice and quality of coffee available in a workplace can have a big impact on employee morale and productivity -- not to mention milk variety, sweeteners, clean cups...]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott&#8217;s new nanny state</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/09/abbotts-new-nanny-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/09/abbotts-new-nanny-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maternity leave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paid parental leave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott has pitched the idea of six months' paid parental leave. Business, unions and even his own colleagues have slammed (and mocked) the plan. But will it be a winner with Rudd's "working families"?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Colless: Tony, don&#8217;t be afraid of the big bad union</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/union-campaign-should-not-derail-coalition/story-e6frg6zo-1225838392149</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/union-campaign-should-not-derail-coalition/story-e6frg6zo-1225838392149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplace relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new media campaign by ACTU called <a href="http://www.actu.org.au/Campaigns/Dontgobacktoworkchoices/default.aspxl">"Don't Go Back To WorkChoices"</a> is an unfair and untruthful attack on Tony Abbott. The Libs<em>need</em> to offer a suitable IR alternative since Rudd's policies are collapsing, writes <b>Malcolm Colless</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Grattan: Can Abbott tame the WorkChoices beast?</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/can-abbott-control-ir-monster-20100218-oipm.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/can-abbott-control-ir-monster-20100218-oipm.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian workplace agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battlelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Other disposed Lib leaders wouldn't touch industrial relations with a ten foot pole, but Tony Abbott says "WorkChoices wasn't all bad" and is pushing his own, more tightly reigned in version. Will it work for Abbott? asks <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why business won&#8217;t be lining up to support Abbott&#8217;s IR plans</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/From-passion-to-pragmatism-in-IR-pd20100218-2RRNR?OpenDocument</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/From-passion-to-pragmatism-in-IR-pd20100218-2RRNR?OpenDocument#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While employers may quietly support Tony Abbott's plan to scrap weekend penalty rates and unfair dismissal laws, they're not about to form a Coalition cheer squad, says <b>Nicholas Way</b>: they know Gillard will still be holding the reigns of power after the election.]]></description>
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		<title>WorkChoices II: the Coalition strikes back</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/workchoices-ii-the-coalition-strikes-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/workchoices-ii-the-coalition-strikes-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott has been steering the political narrative into some treacherous waters this week: industrial relations. As the sharks start circling, will the Coalition sink or swim in the spectre of WorkChoices?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/workchoices-ii-the-coalition-strikes-back/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grattan: WorkChoices back from the dead</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/shift-in-focus-risky-for-abbott-20100215-o2wz.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/shift-in-focus-risky-for-abbott-20100215-o2wz.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=116871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let the scaremongering begin. Tony Abbott's new workplace relations reforms aren't dissimilar to the much hated WorkChoices. It's a risky move by Abbott to bring IR laws back into the spotlight, writes <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/shift-in-focus-risky-for-abbott-20100215-o2wz.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The fairly quiet Fair Work Week</title>
		<link>http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2791429.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2791429.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Industrial Relations Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplace relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A whole new set of federal laws about industrial relations has slid into being this week with very little fanfare. <b>Anne Junor</b> explains exactly what the changes entail for employees and employers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2791429.htm/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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