Work force? Battles lines drawn over PM's IR plan with no name
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Work force? Battles lines drawn over PM's IR plan with no name
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When the Howard government was turfed out of office in the 2007 WorkChoices election, it left behind 5684 postcards, 77,893 pens and 100,000 mousepads, all bearing the name of the policy that doomed it.
John Howard had nailed his colours to the mast and went down with his ship.
In March 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed the incoming Labor government had found hundreds of thousands of left over WorkChoices supplies, inlcuding mouse pads, when it entered office.