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The work choices bill and its critics.
TWO THINGS are particularly disappointing about recent commentary in response to the release of the government's Work Choices bill. The first is the lack of balance in the academic "discussion", and the second is the rather poor level of the criticism that has been levelled against the bill generally. One gets the feeling that in a desperate flurry to try and find something (anything!) to criticise, the bottom of the barrel is well and truly being scraped.
Many of the criticisms of the bill are misleading. There has been little effort by academic critics to show that there are two sides to debates about many aspects of the bill. One would have hoped that academic ...
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