The real issue is that an incompetent Labor movement in Australia means that serious discussions (like we should be cancelling penalty rates for casual weekend workers and treating every day the same and the social impacts of such a proposition) don't get the attention they deserve. Some big business are free to put forward those ideas and they're not being discussed because the attention is on a government self absorbed with 'saving the climate', 'gay marriage', silencing dissenting voices in the media, and taxing everyone who has worked hard to become self supporting. This too because an incompetent government is so busy trying to dig themselves out of a crap pile of their own making that they don't have the spare brain power/ capacity to actually engage in the social discussions that we should be having.
At least with the Libs in power I know the economy is ticking along with a degree of competence so that we can actually talk about other things.