The only thing the H R Nicholls Society will be happy with is a return to the Master Serf relationship,when the Worker knew his place,the society's bastard child the IPA is pushing the same crap.
You gotta love the anti unions mob they have no idea, most having never done a hard physical days work in their lives

Adam. We are but one nation against the world! Not groups divided along some purely arbitrary class line.

Work choices failed simply because it fail the no disadvantage test. And because, diabolically dumb idealogues, believed and believe. In order for the most privileged to be better off, the worse off need to grow as a demographic?

One only need travel as far as the Philippines to see the abysmal asinine consequences of this inherently absurd, locked and bolted mindset. For there the privileged protect their patch by requiring even some of the most mundane occupations require a university degree!?

I mean, you need degree in business management to flip burgers at McDonalds!? This results in the great unwashed working for peanuts or slave drivers, or both and has given rise to one of the largest and most corrupt cash economies in the so called western world?

And where we are heading, without a comprehensive rethink and reappraised goal setting.

Tramping down the already downtrodden only adds more and more numbers to the crush. whereas boosting the lowest with doable intelligent policy does exactly the opposite.

Go take a butchers at the Philippines, and where they were alongwith us, Singapore, NZ, Taiwan, Korea and Malaysia at wars end; and where we all of us are now. NZ and Singapore opted for democratic socialism. As did we around that time, whereas the Philippines followed the fundamentally flawed and failed American extreme capitalist model and relied almost exclusively on raw resources like almost spent oil and gas fields to change their economic circumstances.

All while overspent rice paddy fields progressively succumbed to ever increasing salination. Leaving the poor and downtrodden with fewer and fewer options.

And are now too weak after Marcos, to protect traditional fishing grounds. ameliorating any and all of that there and here, doable!

But always at the chagrin of the control freaks, who invariably think it's all about them and that they're the only ones that count? The rest can take the hindmost!
Alan B.

Can we really take seriously an article that claims, without any supporting evidence, that the Fair Work system amounts to protectionism? Though there was historically a link between protectionism and regulated industrial relations, that link was broken decades ago... by a Labor government.

But more worrying than the cognitive dissonance of Adam Bisits is the cluelessness of our current PM. He fails to understand that of the many things we can do to make Australia competitive for business, lower business taxes are one of the worst value options. And his attacks on Bill Shorten have revealed Turnbull to be stuck in the past on industrial relations; he still sees it as completely adversarial, and fails to comprehend that nowadays the focus is on getting a deal which benefits everyone.

Return to the Master Serf relationship will be the only thing for the H R Nicholls Society to be happy, this is for sure.