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Election Coverage Flat White

Who has the courage to fix workplace law?

1 April 2025

4:41 PM

1 April 2025

4:41 PM

Will politics defeat sensible labour policy, just as it has with taxation, our disgraceful duplicative mining approvals procedures, and our endlessly complicated immigration appeals?

Our current labour laws are ‘three bricks’: an impossibly large and complicated Fair Work Act, awards, and agreements. The Fair Work Act is approximately 135,000 words long of hard-to-read law, with endless sub-clauses.

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