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By Kim on January 6, 2011
As we all slouch back towards work in the new year, a hardy perennial has been dominating the business pages and the Bosses’ Bible, the Australian Financial Review. Spurred on, this time, by the release of 1980 Cabinet papers (resources [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged 1980 cabinet papers, Fair Work Australia, ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, labour market, propaganda, resources boom, unions, wages breakout, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 21, 2010
One day it would be interesting to research whether Paul Kelly was the first to proclaim the importance of the ‘narrative’ in Australian politics. Certainly, it’s been his leitmotif. And central to his two door-stopping tomes on recent political history [...]
Posted in Environment, federal election 2010, Government, Immigration, Politics, Sociology | Tagged australian settlement, business, Federal Election 2010, ideology, Immigration, Industrial Relations, IR, narrative, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, Peter Van Onselen, population, Tony Abbott, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Let’s sum up a few things about the CPRS/leadership shenanigans: (a) It’s been intriguing to see the focus of political discussion narrow to the Parliamentary dramatics. Journalists – and one suspects, many Liberal MPs – appear to have completely lost [...]
Posted in By-elections, Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged By-elections, Climate change, commentariat, cprs, ets, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Industrial Relations, journos, Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal right, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Peter Costello, Ryan, spill, Tony Abbott, Wentworth, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2009
The persistence, and now the widening, of the gap between men’s and women’s pay is one of the continuing scandals of Australian public life. Despite the fact that unequal pay for work of equal value has been illegal since the [...]
Posted in Activism, Feminism, Industrial Relations, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged equal pay, Eva Cox, Feminism, gender equity, gender gap, Industrial Relations, pay, Politics, remuneration, sociology of work, Women, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Julia Gillard has criticised the decision of the Fair Pay Commission to award no increase in the federal minimum wage. She accurately notes that the decision will have an impact on other workers as well, because the safety net is [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged ACTU, AIRC, ALP, ALP policy, decision, Fair Pay Commission, Fair Work Australia, FPC, Ian Harper, IR reform, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour economics, minimum wage, Rudd government, unemployment, wages policy, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 10, 2008
I’ve noticed some wild leaps of logic, if that’s the right word, in the “analysis” of Julia Gillard’s Forward With Fairness IR bill. Apparently, everything that may have happened in the past that would scare employers (probably including a return [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Media | Tagged Andrew Crook, Brad Norington, business, business lobby, class war, Crikey, employer associations, employers, Industrial Relations, IR, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited, Policy, unionism, unions, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2008
Julia Gillard is certainly capable of a sophisticated negotiating strategy, and it’s been interesting to observe that the process of formulating the legislation to implement Forward With Fairness and replace WorkChoices – while managed largely behind closed doors – was [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, ALP, bargaining, business, Forward with fairness, Industrial Relations, industrial relations laws, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, unions, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
…45% of Australians think so, according to this fortnight’s Essential Research poll. As a bit of an addendum to my earlier post about Julia Gillard’s speech last week to the National Press Club on the detail of the Forward with [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Polls | Tagged ACTU, ALP, brendan nelson, Essential Research, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, political analysis, polling, Polls, psephology, Rudd government, union movement, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2008
Earlier in the year, writing in On Line Opinion, I thought that Labor’s “Forward With Fairness” industrial relations policy was best interpreted as an attempt to entrench a new workplace settlement acceptable to all parties – and I still think [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, ALP, collective bargaining, employment rights, Federal election 2007, Forward with fairness, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, ir legislation, Jeff Lawrence, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, National Press Club address, Rachel Siewert, Rudd government, Senate, Sharan Burrow, Telstra, The Greens, unfair dismissal, unions, workplace relations |
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By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Let’s sum up a few things about the CPRS/leadership shenanigans: (a) It’s been intriguing to see the focus of political discussion narrow to the Parliamentary dramatics. Journalists – and one suspects, many Liberal MPs – appear to have completely lost [...]
Posted in By-elections, Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged By-elections, Climate change, commentariat, cprs, ets, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Industrial Relations, journos, Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal right, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Peter Costello, Ryan, spill, Tony Abbott, Wentworth, WorkChoices, workplace relations | 122 Responses