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Innes Willox

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.

Our economy is struggling, trying to stave off recession as inflation, interest rate rises and slumping confidence take hold.

Now thrown on to the pile of pain points comes a series of proposals from the federal government, cheered on by the unions, that open our enterprises to coercion, more industrial action, centralised control and fewer protections for employers.

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Innes Willox is chief executive of the Australian Industry Group.

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