The article 'Beazley would do well to move forward on IR laws' illustrates how decrepit democracy has become in Australia.

It is a sad state of affairs when the only hope for Australians to remove negative and terrible laws is to rely on opposition parties to do so some time in the future.

Despite the current IR laws having been tested throughout most of the industrial revolution and early 20th Century , even if by some form of magic they were to work in the 21st Century the incumbent government holds the responsibility to rectify negative impacts its policies have on the people that government is supposed to serve.

Of course Beazley would do well to move foward on IR laws.We should be asking why is not Howard doing the job we gave him and remove his outdated IR laws himself?

'A rich source of international law is the work of the International Labor Organisation. The Howard Government has not relied on these conventions because they tend to be consistent with principles such as collective bargaining, and thus ill-suited to a law like WorkChoices' says Williams.

Thus he predicates Labor sanctity on international influence. Yet it is the overt existance of international pressures such as FTA, free market and great powers which has Labor screaming.

So the question is, which influence is Labor really listening to. In country it would be the shadow government; however, i am certain the off-shore influence is less known. A product of something we have yet to experience. Williams is right, all Labor needs to do is re-win a few more states, and then they can begin to 'build' a centrally planned new State with the omniptent and omnipreset demands of the Autocratic Council of Totatalirian Underdogs being adhered to. Once acheived, the big new bananas republic will unlikely roll back anything erected by the Liberals. True, they might repeal some of the IR laws and re-invigerate the Welfare State for those who are destined for it, and retrofit them to the above mentioned, ambigious 'Labour' movement.

But this off course implies collective bargaining, which is claimed somewhere to be a 'right', unlike individual rights which seem to be nowhere in sight or Labor. But the collective bargaining will be an international one supported by the above Labour movements. Now if this isnt some type of global governance, or international conspiracy ill eat a hat. Clearly, all the song and dance from Labor and the Left is only more about them being in charge of it all, and not the 'Liberals'.

And in reply to West, the only hope for the Federation is to repeal the current national demarcation dispute.

You can count on Prime Minister Beazley for not changing any I.R.laws If he ever became P.M.
He along with Whitlam,Hawke,and Ketting are just stooges for the big corporations that are causing Australian workers to be ridiculed in the main stream media.
The latest was Heather Ridout,of the Employers Union pointing out in all her self proclaimed wisdom,that " Australian workers lack the skills."
Who designs and builds motor vehicles,ships,turbines,and houses that do not fall down or stop because of cheap materials.
Come on enough is enough,Australian workers are possibly the most skilled hard working and industrious of any nation on earth.
I should now my skills are wanted on every continent on earth,yet my government allows overseas imports,both human and material to flood the Australian market.