People & associates
Ken Phillips
Escape from tribalism
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2007
WorkChoices has been a politically contentious reform to workplace relations in Australia primarily because the Australian union movement has run a successful marketing campaign against the reforms.
Election strategy after WorkChoices
Work safety too important to be left to unions
Worf safety incidents are frequently used as public relations opportunities
Industrial Relations and the struggle to build in Victoria
How important have federal industrial relations reforms been to the people of Victoria and the Victorian Government? If the reforms had been introduced at the beginning of the Bracks/Brumby government it's feasible that Eastlink could have been...
The Politics of a Tragedy: The Gretley Mine Disaster and NSW OHS
International Labour Organisation finally faces reality
For the first time, the peak body of world-wide labour regulators accepted that labour regulations should not interfere in commercial transactions.
Food manufacturing facing the wall
The sector faces the same challenges and the same gloom as 5 years ago.
Presuming Employer Guilt: The damaging state of work safety and compensation laws in Australia
In a major report the IPA has called for the urgent development of nationally consist OHS laws. In this context NSW OHS laws must be repealed.
Labour in the rural sector
Few sectors will benefit from IR reform more than the agricultural sector