People & associates
Ken Phillips
New laws change the way the workplace works
Forward with Fairness has finally arrived. At 613 pages it will take some time to digest the implications. First impressions reveal something new...
Machine culture rotten to core
Is the NSW Government totally dysfunctional or is it just suffering from a series of disconnected unfortunate events? The list of events is long...
New IR law contains unnecessary risks
So far the Rudd government's Forward with Fairness policy has been debated in the context of what it is not. That is, it's not Work Choices. Also...
The system suffers when everyone has somewhere to hide
This global financial crisis is testing to extremes every idea and tool economic regulators possess. But regulators don't demonstrate any...
ABCC passes public interest test
The Australian Building and Construction Commission operates an oppressive kangaroo court. It victimizes innocent construction workers and...
Drums are beating for Iemma
Of all Labor governments across Australia, NSW seems to be the one tearing itself apart. What's happening is critical to Labor nationally and to...
Developers have building blocks to get better results
It's long been a dream of many in the Melbourne construction sector to build medium-density apartments at the same cost of building housing in the...
The regiments of left and right now march to market
The left has lost. So say the left! This is not a point-scoring statement from someone from the right but the words of the people from the...
Inflation kiss of death haunts Labor
The Labor Party understands economic and political history. It knows that wage break-outs ignited inflation, sealing the death of the Whitlam,...
Labor's IR shake-up passes test
The federal government's workplace reforms are well into implementation. An assessment is now possible as to whether the reforms are genuine or a...