High Court challenge to IR laws.

NSW launches High Court challenge to IR laws. :

"'The first one is that the original constitutional powers on industrial relations were jointly held between the Commonwealth and the state for very good reasons, and we believe that that should remain the case,' he said.

'Secondly, we believe the corporations power is not meant to allow the exploitation of individuals. It's there to protect individuals from corporations.'"

Were it sensible reform, so many sensible people would not be challenging it and I am glad we are taking up the High Court challenges. Many, many well credentialled and sensible people have rung the arlarm bells on this. Business practice is not necessarily good economic sense. The business model might suit businesses, and a global economy might be more desirous of good business models, but a society is not just business. Businesses are about profit for owners and shareholders. The economy has to be about the members of the society. We have had good industrial practices. We had happy , safe, reasonable work places. Work makes up much of your life but it is not life, it is work. Subjugating people to work place legislation which will impact on their lives in a deliterous fashion is never something we have endorsed. The impact will come over time and then it would be a long, hard haul to recover the ground we have. Our work environments have been noted to be viable, stable places but this has upset everyone and everything . We have negotiated so many things through our work place relations forums. We were all part of the process and it included us. We have been disenfranchised and that's a retrograde step since we had moved so well along the work place continuum. Our constitution is exactly that...about our constitution as a nation. At federation we allowed states to have their own powers as well, probably to avoid absolute government.