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Why the Morrison government's 'double-dipping’ gambit fails the pub test

  • Written by Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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It’s almost unimaginable: an Australian government proposes a law that would wipe out billions of dollars of employers’ entitlements.

Even more unimaginable: it does so on the basis of mistakes made by employees.

Yet right now a “Black Mirror” scenario lies before Australia’s federal parliament, in the...

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