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All is Positive on the Population Front
Population has been synonymous with crisis for so long, it is little wonder that Australians are concerned about the level and pattern of...
The Quiet Destroyer
Globalisation is steadily turning our IR system into a quiet job-destruction machine. Ours is an adversarial system based on periodic, no...
Fox-Lew Bid Could Present Wider Dangers to IR Reform
The Fox-Lew proposals for Ansett would take us forward to the past. There was a time when each Australian manufacturing industry was granted a...
Desirability of Regulating Political Parties
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In the Supermarket of the Soul, Not all Aisles Lead to Christ
One of the nice things about our multicultural and ecumenical society is that an irreligious Jew like myself can comment on disputes within the...
Look for Strength in the Mainstream
When Australians voted overwhelmingly in favour of the 1967 Referendum, it is inconceivable that they wanted Aborigines to develop separately from...
Labor's Reform Must Heed the
The ALP may have won the Federal election had the tragic events of September 11 and the arrival of Tampa's cargo of illegal immigrants not...
Liberals search for their own Third Way
No doubt Labor's campaign strategists thought it was a good idea at the time to put to air an advertisement claiming that a vote for John Howard...
IR is Destroying Value
We are set to lose one of our largest and more prospective wool-processing firms. Feltex Australia---the largest local manufacturer of carpets,...
IR is Killing the Food Industry
The industrial relations system is killing the food manufacturing industry. Over the last sixteen months, fourteen food processing plants have...