Media Room
Commonsense and Productivity to be Hallmark of Coalition Workplace Relations Policy Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:43
The Coalition today designated commonsense and productivity as the vital ingredients missing from Australia’s workplace relations framework. Addressing an Australian Industry Group Forum in Canberra today the Coalition Spokesman for Employment and Workplace Relations Senator Eric Abetz said, “The ideological warfare of Work Choices and Fair Work failed to deliver Australians the necessary ingredient of commonsense”.
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Address to Australian Industry Group National PIR ConferenceTuesday, 20 April 2010 09:30
Thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Can I acknowledge Stephen Smith, members of AIG, stakeholders, and fellow workplace relations tragics. In any discussion of matters workplace relations it is always instructive to remind oneself that issues workplace relations straddle both the social and economic areas of public policy.
Speech - H.R. Nichols SocietySaturday, 17 April 2010 19:30
“FAIRNESS FOR ALL – THROUGH COMMONSENSE AND FLEXIBLLITY” It is a great honour to be invited to provide this year’s dinner address to the H.R. Nicholls Society. As a Tasmanian I am delighted to be able to make a small contribution to also honour the name of H.R. Nicholls a former editor of the “Hobart Mercury” - my local paper.
Promises Promises - We've heard it all before, JuliaFriday, 16 April 2010 12:22
We all appear to be having a déjà vu moment today following Julia Gillard’s statement that “no school will be worse off” under her review of the schools funding formula. Where have we heard all that before Julia?
Harkins caught out by his own deception - need for full AEC investigationWednesday, 14 April 2010 12:51
Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has renewed calls for The Australian Electoral Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal from the seat of Franklin by Tasmanian union leader Kevin Harkins. Mr Harkins has now revealed to the ABC’s 730 Report last night he was encouraged by Prime Minister Rudd’s former Chief of Staff, David Epstein in 2007 that he should stand down and that at a secret meeting later he was told if he agreed to stand aside he would be given a free run at the next preselection without any “blockers or veto or interference”.
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Gillard concedes workers are worse offThursday, 08 April 2010 10:59
Julia Gillard’s warning to nursing home operators in NSW and Queensland not to cut nurses pay under Labor’s modern award system is an admission by the Deputy Prime Minister that workers ARE worse off under her new award system. Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd ensured that no worker would be worse off under Labor’s new award system but clearly this is not the case and is yet another in a long list of Labor’s broken promises.
Labor's bureaucracy gone madThursday, 01 April 2010 11:14
Retailers who are struggling to cope with the introduction of Julia Gillard’s complex modern awards scheme now face the prospect of being unfairly targeted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Why is the Ombudsman subjecting retailers to a substantive audit of pay scales, penalty rates and leave loading allowances, at a time when the retail award is still being worked out by Fair Work Australia?
Julia Gillard - Showboating in the WestWednesday, 31 March 2010 17:15
Julia Gillard’s showboating in the West in hardhats and vests with policy on the run won’t fix Labor’s industrial relations mess. Clearly Ms Gillard’s industrial laws are not working as evidenced by today’s decision by Qantas engineers to initiate unjustifiable work bans over Easter designed to cause inconvenience to airline passengers, a similar action to that taken by unions in the lead up to last years Christmas holiday period.
Julia Gillard - "the rules are the rules", so why are you changing them?Monday, 29 March 2010 16:35
Julia Gillard can’t have it both ways. On the one hand she wants to do away with the Australian Building and Construction Commission, replacing it with an authority with watered down powers and on the other, she warns militant unionists to abide by the laws saying “the rules are the rules”. Well they are Ms Gillard, or at least until you tried to change them, a move that the Senate is thankfully blocking.
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