Speeches & Opinions: 2005
Sharan Burrow: Remember This Day
Media Release - November 15, 2005
Remember this day. Remember this day. Because THIS is the start of something.
For more than 100 years Australia has had an industrial relations system that has given working people a share of the benefits of economic prosperity.
Greg Combet: Address to the National Day of Community Protest
Media Release - November 15, 2005
Today, by rallying in such huge numbers, we declare that working people will not be denied a central place in Australia’s future. Working families built this country. They fought and died for it.
Greg Combet: Real Economic Challenges and the WorkChoices Legislation
Media Release - November 2, 2005
Greg Combet outlined his critique of the Government’s new IR legislation in the context of the real economic challenges facing Australia.
Sharan Burrow: The WorkChoices Legislation
Media Release - October 24, 2005
On any measure the WorkChoices legislation will be bad law. Not just because it is unjustified by any credible economic argument. Not only because of the social impact, and the damage to our social cohesion and social progress.
ACTU President Sharan Burrow’s Speech On The WorkChoices Legislation
Media Release - October 24, 2005
Greg Combet: Industrial Relations: Give Workers a Genuine Choice
Media Release - August 23, 2005
I would like to use the opportunity I have to speak to you by going straight to the heart of the Governments industrial relations changes, and why they fundamentally undermine employee rights.
Greg Combet: Industrial Relations, Employee Rights and the Economy
Media Release - July 6, 2005
On the 26th of May John Howard announced the Government’s plans to rewrite Australia’s industrial relations laws, arguing that this was “one of the great pieces of unfinished business in the structural transformation of the Australian economy”.
