- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Contributor biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- One Towards a new progressive policy agenda
- Two Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy
- Three Macroeconomic policy after the Global Financial Crisis
- Four Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
- Five Welfare reform
- Six ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
- Seven Indigenous policy: Canberra consensus on a neoliberal project of improvement
- Eight Culture and diversity
- Nine The business of care: Australia’s experiment with the marketisation of childcare
- Ten Mixed messages in the new politics of education
- Eleven The accidental logic of health policy in Australia
- Twelve Loose moorings: debate and directions in Australian housing policy
- Thirteen Population policy
- Fourteen Australian cities: in pursuit of a national urban policy
- Fifteen Natural resource management: steering not rowing against the current in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Sixteen International perspectives: low carbon urban Australia in a time of transition
- Seventeen Politics and government
- Eighteen Federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Nineteen Citizen engagement in Australian policy making
- Twenty On escaping neoliberalism: concluding reflections
- Index
‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
- Chapter:
- (p.97) Six ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
- Source:
- Australian public policy
- Author(s):
John Buchanan
Damian Oliver
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter charts the evolution of industrial relations (IR) policy in Australia. It argues the Industrial Relations Reform Act introduced by the Keating Labor Government in 1993 marked the turning point in IR policy, signalling a shift in underlying ideology from liberal collectivism to neoliberalism. In practice, this has meant IR policy is now directed towards the efficiency of bargaining at the firm and individual level and less concerned with coordinating employers and trade unions to deliver fair outcomes between and within industries. Consequently the IR framework lacks the means to address erosion of union representation rights, insecure employment and wage inequality.
Keywords: industrial relations, wages, income, collective bargaining, precarious employment, inequality
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- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Contributor biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- One Towards a new progressive policy agenda
- Two Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy
- Three Macroeconomic policy after the Global Financial Crisis
- Four Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
- Five Welfare reform
- Six ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
- Seven Indigenous policy: Canberra consensus on a neoliberal project of improvement
- Eight Culture and diversity
- Nine The business of care: Australia’s experiment with the marketisation of childcare
- Ten Mixed messages in the new politics of education
- Eleven The accidental logic of health policy in Australia
- Twelve Loose moorings: debate and directions in Australian housing policy
- Thirteen Population policy
- Fourteen Australian cities: in pursuit of a national urban policy
- Fifteen Natural resource management: steering not rowing against the current in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Sixteen International perspectives: low carbon urban Australia in a time of transition
- Seventeen Politics and government
- Eighteen Federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Nineteen Citizen engagement in Australian policy making
- Twenty On escaping neoliberalism: concluding reflections
- Index
