One of the authors of the Australia@Work report, Dr Brigid Van Wanrooy, who along with Dr John Buchanan and the other researchers on the project, has been traduced by Joe Hockey, Peter Costello and The Australian, has written a guest post at Blogocracy and is taking questions in the comments thread.
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Professor Mark Wooden challenged the report’s methodology and the timing, criticising ithe researchers for not asking the workers if AWAs had reduced their take-home pay, and claimed the research was distorted by researchers moving onto the next respondent if they did not answer their call! Never mind that the survey had a huge sample of 8343 workers.
Wooden has a long history of research conducted for the Business Council of Australia. “The Australian” fails to mention this. Given reporters and commentators on “The Australian” consider the background of researchers to be so important, it is a telling omission. At least Wooden did not attack Buchanan’s and his team’s honesty.
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