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Steve Knott

February

State-sponsored regulatory and third-party workplace interference threatens to kill productivity and prosperity.

Bizarre new era of industrial relations must be unwound

State-sponsored and third-party interference threatens to kill workplace productivity and prosperity. Here are eight ways to fix the situation.

November 2023

The peak body concentrated on getting amendments for its members.

Why AREEA didn’t go with the herd on the IR bill

We had two choices: join the ‘kill the bill’ crowd or accept political reality and consult on getting some key changes.

June 2022

Fair Work Commission president Justice Iain Ross headed the minimum wage panel.

Minimum wage decision will fuel stagflation

The Fair Work Commission has stoked pay expectations across the economy while doing diddly squat to boost productivity. That will inevitably be inflationary and cost jobs.

March 2022

Steve Knott

An election devoid of workplace ideas

The Coalition has no positive policies, while Labor and the unions use a fake casualisation campaign as cover for divisive tactics.

February 2021

Unions block greenfields job creation

The inexplicable union opposition to “life of project” IR reforms jeopardises billions of dollars of foreign investment in high wage resource jobs.

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