Opinion

Does this government have the guts to take on IR reform?

Simon Cowan
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:52am, first published August 15 2020 - 4:30am
There are ideas for reform out there that would treat workers as people with agency, capable of making their own decisions on working conditions. Picture: Shutterstock
There are ideas for reform out there that would treat workers as people with agency, capable of making their own decisions on working conditions. Picture: Shutterstock

Coronavirus has caused the government to reconsider policy areas, such as industrial relations, once buried in tombs so dark some feared they would never come to light. For several weeks now, the government has clearly been floating balloons in the industrial relations space.

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Simon Cowan

Simon Cowan

Canberra Times columnist

Simon Cowan is research director at the Centre for Independent Studies and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times.

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