(1993) Future Directions of Trade Union Peak Councils
This article was co-written with Michael Costa and Tom Forrest, probably in mid-1993, and was for internal discussion in the Labor Council of NSW.
(1993) Options Concerning Trade Union Training
Some of the early history of trade union training in Australia is covered in an article by Peter Mathews in an article in the Journal of Industrial Relations in 1966.
(1993) Labor Heart Change to Wage-fixing System
Whoever thinks that anything the Prime Minister said last week on industrial relations reform was accidental or merely imperfectly phrased is kidding themselves.
(1993) Hope of Deliverance is More than Just Mindless Optimism
In an important sense no one knows the future or can abruptly predict where we will be in a decade. Ten years ago some of us were predicting that unemployment would continue to rise and, with technological changes, asked where would the new jobs come from?
(1993) Jobs Have to be the Main Issue
The Treasurer knew that last night’s Budget would be judged against three criteria: jobs, jobs, jobs. So what’s the scorecard? Clearly the economic and employment optimism that colored One Nation is now replaced by a more subdued outlook.
(1993) Labor Unity Statement of Principles
In defining the industrial and political ethos that Labor Unity represents, there is the danger of being too prescriptive, too ideological and too certain about details.
(1993) Jobs the Criteria for Judgment. Optimism Replaced by More Subdued Estimate of Future
The Treasurer knew that last night’s Budget would be judged against three criteria: jobs, jobs, jobs. So what’s the scorecard?
(1993) Maximising Employment in the 1990s
This was a January 1993 submission by the Labor Council of NSW to the Keating government in follow up to the Prime Minister’s One Nation policy statement of the year before and in response to an invitation to submit “fresh ideas” on employment at the start of 1993.
(1993) The Petshop Galah and the Wise Owl: Micro-economic Reform and Australian Labor
Speech given in December 1993 to the Second Annual Micro-Economic Reform Conference, sponsored by the Business Council of Australia, published in the Business Council Bulletin, January/February 1994, pp. 32-37.