This Month
- Opinion
- CFMEU
Five fixes are called for to clean up the CFMEU
Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rid our biggest construction union of ingrained criminal and corrupt conduct. We cannot afford to miss it.
May
- Opinion
- Company tax
Husic states the obvious about tax reform
Without a cut to the corporate tax rate, Australia’s ambitions to be a globally competitive and innovative economy will come to naught.
February
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Intractable bargaining changes a one-way street to inflexibility
The proposed regime means unions could wait for the minimum bargaining period to elapse, knowing the FWC will be arbitrating with one hand tied behind its back.
January
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Anxiety and uncertainty dominate CEO outlook
Improving productivity is the key for industry success in an uncertain, supply-constrained and slowing economy.
October 2023
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
These IR changes are not ‘modest’ but breathtakingly naive
Piling new cost and complexity on to employers will do anything except create secure new jobs.
September 2023
- Opinion
- University
It’s time to reshape universities for national good
Our tertiary institutions are a national asset, but collaboration with industry is a missed opportunity and should be a focus of the review now under way.
August 2023
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Labor’s still searching for casuals problem
After ‘increasing casualisation’ was exposed as a myth, Labor and the unions have latched onto ‘the permanent casual worker loophole’. That’s just another myth.
November 2022
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
The government’s IR bill is based on an entirely flawed premise
Wages have fallen behind far less than productivity has. Why aren’t we tackling that problem instead?
October 2022
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
IR bill opens enterprise to coercion across entire industries
Industry-wide bargaining and a centralised industrial system belongs to an era of tariff walls, fixed currencies, picket lines and secondary boycotts.
August 2022
- Opinion
- Jobs summit
Step up immigration because we have run out of people
The ACTU wants to throttle with bureaucracy the skilled migration program, which should be loosened to fill the worker shortages holding business back.
- Opinion
- Gas
A responsible agenda to get more gas will annoy almost everybody
Pulling the trigger on LNG export bans is just the first difficult decision needed to safeguard Australia’s energy security.
September 2021
- Opinion
- Tax reform
‘Tycoon tax’ adds to Byzantine absurdity
The Greens’ flawed and populist proposal has done a service by drawing attention to the need for serious debate about simplifying Australia’s taxation regime.
April 2021
February 2021
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Unions support huge wage cut
The ACTU portable leave scheme would ask 2.5 million workers to accept a quarter less take-home pay while crippling business with a 15 per cent levy.
January 2020
- Opinion
- Courts
Class action industry is making it harder to do business
Overseas litigation funders are really financial institutions. They should be regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, writes Innes Willox.
