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IR: Gillard fails on process, Keneally on policy

19 Oct 05:55am

Filed under: Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, Kristina Kenealy, Nsw Government, Nsw Labor, Oh&s, Worker Safety

In any dispute involving the NSW Government, the temptation is to assume that the NSW Government is 100 per cent in the wrong. It just saves time.

In happier times. Photo: Alan Porrit, AAP

The stand-off between Premier Kristina Keneally and Prime Minister Julia Gillard over industrial relations reform is a bit more complicated than that.

Keneally might be out of step with other Labor Governments and the Commonwealth in refusing to accept what are modest and sensible reforms to work safety laws. But Gillard has been found wanting both in terms of her capacity for effective and sincere negotiation. She also looks like she tricked the voters by claiming during the federal election campaign that a deal had been done with the states to wind back the excesses of work safety laws, saving business millions of dollars, when it is now quite obvious that no such deal had been done.

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