Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

agreement of the ACTU, to reduce wages growth, under the‘Prices and Incomes Accord’. This was done by the Australian Industrial ...

1996, the total number of unions decreased from 316 to 132 (Griffin 2002). The original unions were reluctant to relinquish thei ...

Unfair dismissal protection removed for workplaces of 100 or fewer work- ers or for‘operational reasons’. AWAs no longer subje ...

Unfortunately, and somewhat unusually, for John Howard, the industrial relations proposals lacked the thoroughness and preparedn ...

a puppet of the union movement, and return Australian industrial relations to a largely discredited inflexible system. Rudd also ...

Commission (FWC)-approved agreements or awards determined by the FWC. Over 100 awards remain, covering about 20 per cent of empl ...

7.6 The Effects of Labour Market Regulation There is now acceptance by many that the freeing up of the labour market had been a ...

(Cabalu et al. 1996). Lewis et al. (2015) estimate that the compliance costs of regulation to small businesses in Australia are ...

Collective bargaining in the UK became far more decentralized during the 1970s and 1980s. In this period, many companies in the ...

norm, and with declining union density (under 17 per cent in 2104),‘direct employer–employee bargaining became the norm and indi ...

programmes, have reduced the demand for services which have been typically offered by unions. Finally, in the past several decad ...

In Japan, the term ‘minimum wage’refers to the national weighted average amount per hour of the various minima applying across t ...

7.8 The Impact of Minimum Wages and Penalty Rates: The Balance Sheet Table 7.1 shows the minimum wage and average hourly earning ...

wages and penalty rates. This ethos goes back to Justice Higgins who, in the 1909 Broken Hill Case, pronounced: If a man cannot ...

decentralized determination of wages and conditions and different degrees of government enforcement of minimum rates of pay and ...

Griffin, G. 2002.Union Mergers in Australia: Top-Down Strategic Restructuring. Melbourne: National Key Centre in Industrial Rela ...

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2015.OECD StatExtracts, http://stats.oecd.org/INdex.aspx?DataSetC ...

8 Australia’s Electoral Idiosyncrasies William O. Coleman In many countries it is contrary to law for prisoners to vote. In Aust ...

democracy. It contends that, on the contrary, the Australian sense of democ- racy is undeveloped. 8.1 The Secret Ballot Australi ...

each elector to place an X against the name of their preferred candidate, rather than crossing out the names of the others.^5 Wh ...