by John Della Bosca | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Before commencing I would like to acknowledge that we stand on the traditional Aboriginal land of the Gadigal clan of the Eora people. I would also like to thank the Evatt Foundation for inviting me to speak. It is an important forum for the discussion of industrial...
by Arthur Chesterfield-Evans | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
First I would like to thank Mohamad Sadejhpour and the People’s Mujahideen of Iran for organising this forum.The Australian Democrats endorse the 3rd Option espoused by the National Council of Resistance of Iran: that the Iranian people and the Iranian...
by Chris White | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
The right to strike in Australia Industrial relations politics …. this time with power The Howard government again moves to implement radical right industrial relations policies – this time with Senate power. Contested industrial relations politics...
by Greg Combet | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Employee rights and the economy Introduction On the 26th of May John Howard announced the government’s plans to rewrite Australia’s industrial relations laws, arguing that this was ‘one of the great pieces of unfinished business in the...
by Christopher Sheil | Aug 3, 2005 | Papers
Globalisation revisited Globalisation is a notoriously difficult word to define. There is no ‘proper’ meaning for the term.1 ‘Globalisation’ is not a settled part of our language but a site of unresolved conflict. Indeed, one might even be...
by Chris White | Apr 2, 2005 | Papers
The case for re-evaluation Summary The right to strike on political issues is a controversial, contested industrial relations and labour law issue. Governments and employers use labour law against the political protests of striking unionists. Controlling industrial...