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Sorry ScoMo, but this is tepid tinkering with IR laws, not real reform

11 December 2020

2:06 PM

11 December 2020

2:06 PM

When the Prime Minister announced his five-point industrial relations package in May a senior adviser told me “This is not 1996” referencing the reform package introduced by the then minister, Peter Reith. 

And in parliament this week the Prime Minister confirmed this, saying the changes “are modest and practical”. 

He is correct.

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