Let me lay down two propositions. The first is that labour relations in this country are in a bad way, too centralised, too inflexible, too much a throwback to the pre-Howard 1980s and early 1990s. More and more people are coming around to something like that view. Soon it may be orthodoxy.
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James Allan is Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland (and author of ‘Democracy in Decline’)
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