Labor and the unions are predicting the end of civiliztion as we now know it, while others such as the Business Council of Australia are wringing their hands because the IR reforms don't go far enough.
The changes to the IR legislation are nowhere near as bold as those introduced by the Hawke/Keating Labor government and I've yet to see Buckets Beasley move to repeal those particular bits of legislation. The proposed reforms are of a very modest nature.
Howard trying to Americanise the labor market ? Absolutely, positvely not. The vulnerable at risk ? They always are. It's called wellfare.
Unionised workers have dropped to around 17.5% of the total workforce, while the Labor parties primary vote hovers around an all time low of about 34%. With numbers like that it seems the rest of the country has well and truly moved on and it's the Unions and Labor that are stuck in some sort of idealogical time warp.
The sun will still come up tommorrow as it will every other day.
Yawn.
Last edited by gassed budgie; 17th Nov 2005 at 03:23.