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How Denmark broke the mould on industrial relations

Denmark's 'flexicurity' creates 21st-century workplaces that combine free market efficiency with equity.

The unexpected announcement of negotiations for a new “accord” is a critical opportunity to update Australia’s industrial relations (IR) paradigm for the 21st century.

Australia is saddled with an antagonistic system characterised by zero-sum logic. We need a system founded instead on the symbiotic relationship between labour and capital.

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Robert Breunig is director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Australian National University.
Mark Fabian is a research associate at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

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