Changes in Western Australian Industrial Relations

Human Resource Management and the Individualisation of Australian Industrial Relations

By tradition, Australian industrial relations has been regulated by industrial awards and collective agreements made by, or under the auspices of, industrial tribunals. The central parties to these agreements and awards were employers and trade unions. The individual employment contract between employer and employee was subject to these collective arrangements which, generally speaking, set the...

Changes in Worm Control Practices on Western Australian Sheep Farms

Giardia in Western Australian wildlife.

Giardia has been found in numerous species of mammalian wildlife but very little information is available on the species and strains/genotypes that occur naturally in mammals in the wild. Recently, a novel genotype of Giardia was described in Western Australia, in the Southern brown bandicoot, or quenda (Isoodon obesulus). In order to determine the host range, distribution and prevalence of thi...

Chapter Five From Workplace Bargaining to Workplace Relations: Industrial Relations in the Australian Public Service under the Coalition Government

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the implementation of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) (the ‘WR Act’) and the potential impact of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) (the ‘Work Choices Act’) within the Australian Public Service (‘APS’) — where the Coalition government has the greatest opportunity to influence the working conditions of its own employee...

"Competing Paradigms in Industrial Relations"