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Coalition missing on industrial relations
The Financial Review’s take on the principles at stake in major domestic and global stories.
Five years ago former ACTU vice-president Anna Booth sadly concluded in The Australian Financial Review that the industrial relations system was an "an attempt to institutionalise conflict, not to forge productive workplaces".
Now another insider has launched a devastating critique of the Fair Work Commission under Iain Ross. The fourth-highest-ranked commissioner, vice-president Graeme Watson, has resigned to unleash stinging criticism of a "compromised and biased" system that does not promote co-operation or productivity, or productivity or social inclusion.
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