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Work force? Battles lines drawn over PM's IR plan with no name We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Work force? Battles lines drawn over PM's IR plan with no name Normal text size Advertisement 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 Labo...

You didn’t need Nostradamus to predict the Labor and union blasts when the government released its industrial relations reforms this week. But who – except the few in the know – would have foreseen the government-union-Labor unity ticket to land a massive “hit” on very bad boy John Setka? The legislative rush to pass the bill allowing parts of unions – by which we mean divisions of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining And Energy Union – to leave the mother ship was remarkable. There was tripartite agreement on getting this done instantly. Setka, Victorian boss of the uni...