Are Labor's industrial relations summits a union power grab?
What is it about Labor governments and summits? You'd have thought with a resounding victory like that of May 3 they would not need to ask anyone what to do.
Exactly a month later, newly minted Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth – from memory, the first woman to hold the post – is now holding yet another gathering, specifically to 'kick-start productivity', in line with the Treasurer's Damascene realisation that productivity improvement might slow the country's slide into bankruptcy. I guess that is why he earns the big bucks.
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