The Liberal-National Coalition government pushed its industrial relations legislation through the Senate yesterday, but it had to drop key aspects of the bill that had been demanded by big business in order to win the votes of crossbench MPs.
While the laws contain attacks on the rights and conditions of casual workers, and have been hailed as a victory by the Coalition, their passage will do nothing to stem a deepening crisis of the government.
The legislation has been greeted with intense dissatisfaction from different quarters of the establishment.
The corporate elite, and its mouthpieces in the financial press, have decried the fact that key changes to w…
Read the full article at: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/19/irau-m19.html