Yes, But what about the labor states and their lost green unaffordable housing productivity. Is inflation the only answer while living in a shoebox to satisfy the left and their chattering class. The unions supported these insidious party positions which do not deliver for working families at all. see the resultant spoils on demographia.blogspot.com

Government intervention in business will continue to:

- divide ordinary hard-working people unnecessarily

- cost more than it produces

- enshrine rigid bureaucracy in areas where flexibility is paramount, and

- limit the potential of the Australian economy

...so long as there is no-one in a position of political power who has ever run a business.

One lot is stuffed full of suburban lawyers.

The other lot is stuffed full of union hangers-on.

Result: business will continue to be... stuffed.

Pericles has got it so right, in that one lot is stuffed full of suburban lawyers, trained to make troubles where none exists, and out to line their own pockets at every turn, at $350 an hour. The other lot is only half stuffed full of lawyers, Julia Gillard, Nicola Roxon,Joe Ludwig, Bob Debus, Peter Garrett, Bill Shorten, Lindsay Tanner and a number of others are legally trained. The Attorney General Robert McClelland is a typical suburban lawyer, whose first speech is worth reading. Go Here http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/firstspeech.asp?id=JK6 Here Robert McClelland expresses all the right views on the Magna Carta but as Attorney general he appears to be somewhat awed as a suburban solicitor with the sophisticated graduates, employed by another suburban solicitor called Philip Ruddock.

If Robert McClelland was not a hostage to his staff, he would not have appointed Father Frank Brennan, to investigate a Bill of Rights. He would as it were come out, as Justice Kirby did when he admitted he was gay, and admit Labor made the Bill of Rights law in 1986. It is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and it destroys the suburban lawyers Sacred Cow, State Sovereignty. You cannot have State Sovereingty, all nine of them and a Commonwealth.

He would also come out and accept that the Commonwealth has a responsibility to govern, not lick the ass of State Governments. He would kick the asses of every Federal Court Judge,whose decisions contradict the sentiments he expressed in his first sppeech. Fair work is fair enough, so long as an employer can get a fair hearing in a fair court, not stacked with suburban lawyers, but with twelve of his fellow businessmen, as was the case before the suburban lawyers in the State Parliament in NSW abolished democracy and installed a Lawyers republic.

Much of what is included in "Fair Work" ensures that the unions get included in the negotiating process and far more access to site.

All of these changes increase the cost and risk to the employer of hiring employees, and as such create a disincentive for new employment. Work choices went too far, but the pendulum has now swung back past where it needs to be.

As a CEO said, "in a time of recession and shrinking employment, this is like treating dysentry with a laxitive."

I remember my dad was in a union once. The union and the employer agree to a pay deal, and about a month later, one of the union delegate was driving around in a BMW.

Anyone who think the Union work in the interest of their members is a dinosaur. If they were in the interest of the workers, they would have reduce the union fees. Instead they gave money to the ALP, so they will get "Fairer" work laws. IE laws which will give the union more money

Unions believe in close shop, not allow young people into industry like Ports, stopping people working in the middle of the day, strikes (ie blackmailing the employer). They do not care that they cost Australians thousands of jobs, and hurt both the workers and employers.

It is no wonder unemployment is on the up since Labor and the Unions took power

If you guys want to look at what powerful unions does to economies, just look at Cryslers, GM and Ford in the US

The american car companies deals with some of the bigest, richest, most powerful unions in the world. Their products are substandard, cost more and are less efficient.

The whole industry was kept affloat by tariffs employed by the US government.

Now that the world is in a recession, the high cost the company bears had made them unprofitable. The company will go bankrupt, all staff will lose their job. a viable industry with a hundred years of tradition was destroyed because the union was too powerful.