People & associates
Ken Phillips
New Way of Building Construction Deals
The Federal Government's new construction industry, industrial relations legislation tends to reinforce a view that for workplace reform to occur...
Bumpy road that's paved with failure
The financial collapse of any car parts maker received front page headlines not so long ago. But they have become so regular that such news is...
Compo drives NSW exodus
If you were thinking of visiting a country and saw on television a huge refugee exodus from that country, you'd be cautious about visiting. Surely...
Truth hard to find in new IR
Do the Howard Government's new industrial relations laws let bosses screw workers? If they do, the Government should be tossed out at the next...
State unions are very different beasts
With the Federal Government pushing for a single, national industrial relations system, it's worth considering the different industrial relations...
Too early to damn Work Choices
Is the Howard government's model of individual work contracts immoral? Many say yes. They believe that individual work arrangements destroy the...
Work safety injustice
Recently the NSW government announced proposals to changes to their work safety laws. They have made the correct move of eliminating presumption of...
Building bullies and Beazley beware
THE union fear campaign being run against the Howard Government's workplace changes is recognised as highly successful. It's apparently hurting the...
NSW work safety laws are the worst in the world
The NSW government has been suffering from a lot of criticism over their work safety laws. They deserve the criticism because their laws have been...
Labour clique threatens free market
ALTHOUGH it may sometimes be demonised, a free market is the essence of what makes successful economies work. We might fear free-market competition...