Government throws everything at securing workplace reforms before Christmas but Pocock keeps it guessing
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Peter Reith would have appreciated the irony. In the week that the former industrial relations minister died, federal politics was yet again consumed with a highly charged debate over workplace changes.
Industrial relations is one of the perennial fault lines in Australian politics. As some battles get settled, fresh ones arise, often involving...