August 2024
- Opinion
- Building Bad
How to remake the CFMEU culture of confrontation
Only deeper, durable changes will stop the law-breaking construction union’s self-reinforcing behaviour re-emerging after three years of administration.
July 2024
- Opinion
- Building Bad
How to burst the CFMEU’s balloon for good
Press the construction union, and it simply bulges up somewhere else. More tools are needed if the union’s long-term culture is to change.
May 2020
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Eight principles to revive enterprise bargaining deals
A principles-based approach means that everybody owns workplace safety. Could we do the same for productivity as well?
April 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Broken enterprise bargaining system needs a reboot
Temporarily suspending prescriptive industrial awards has saved jobs. But the post-pandemic recovery will be stifled unless the complex BOOT test is simplified.
December 2019
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Not too late to slam door on bad union behaviour
There is still plenty of existing law to tackle the most common sources of workplace complaint such as right of entry breaches.
November 2019
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
'Wage theft' is a costly punishment for innocent business
Wrong payments need to be fixed by simplification, not cumbersome 19th-century levels of prescription.