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Low wage, low growth: Porter's industrial relations bill is only good in parts

  • Written by Andrew Stewart, John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide

The government’s Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill presently before parliament was drafted at the end of a six-month consultative process that brought together employer and employee representatives to chart what the prime minister hoped would be “a practical reform agenda, a job making...

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