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We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants

  • Written by: David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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As Australia contemplates its post-COVID economy, industrial relations reform has been repackaged by some as the way to “kickstart” growth.

The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has called for our workplace relations system to be simplified and enterprise bargaining to be improved. The Australian Industry Group and...

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Michelle Grattan on the rapid developments in Eden-Monaro, the national cabinet, and next week's 'normal' parliamentary sitting

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher (remotely) about the week in politics, including the likely candidates for the Eden-Monaro by-election, the national cabinet featuring Jacinda Ardern, and what a ‘normal’ parliamentary sitting week in the time of coronavirus looks like.

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Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as essential in New Zealand's lockdown?

  • Written by: Sally Casswell, Professor of public health policy, Massey University
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New Zealand has won international praise for its strict lockdown conditions and public health response to COVID-19, but there’s one glaring blindspot.

Last month, the World Health Organization released a new factsheet on alcohol and COVID-19, warning that heavy alcohol consumption increases the risk of respiratory failure, one of...

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keep free childcare going instead

  • Written by: Leah Ruppanner, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne
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One of the surprise silver linings of the COVID-19 crisis is that childcare became free for all Australian families.

Australia has traditionally been viewed as a liberal welfare state where government policies are reserved for those in the greatest need and a “pick yourselves up by the bootstraps” mentality reigns.

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