“Are you now or have you ever been…?” was the joking title of a recent post at Larvatus Prodeo. It was responding to a despicable Government/Gazette tag-team attack on academics whose research found that WorkChoices and AWAs were slashing wages. Because there was no basis for attacking the merits of the findings, the research team [...]
Last week we learned that the new head of the Workplace Authority, Barbara Bennett, was not hired because she is capable of protecting workers, but because she fit the advertising agencies’ criteria for a propaganda “figurehead”. Now we know that her face on the screen hasn’t done anything to convince people that job insecurity is [...]
A secret Government report has been leaked to the press, revealing details of research on the public’s opinion of WorkChoices. Some of the comments from focus group participants include: “It’s like there’s a guillotine over our heads. Stability is gone.” “The kids will think it’s great to get five days’ annual leave and a bowl [...]
In yet another admission that WorkChoices is a failed policy, the head of the OEA, Peter McIlwain, has been demoteed. His organisation is being renamed the Workplace Authority, and its new director is Barbara Bennett. As Mark Bahnisch points out, this is part of a spin exercise. This is how the Minister explained the new [...]
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