Monday, November 13, 2006

High Court dismisses WorkChoices challenge

While I've been holding out some vain hope that the Federal government's IR laws would be struck down buy the High Court, they have sided with the government in a fairly uncontroversial decision.

I guess this means that this issue will simply have to be fought out at the ballot box, as Labor leaders have been saying all day.

In any case, a decision by the High Court to declare the legislation in part or in whole unconstitutional would merely have taken some of the political sting out of the tail for the government, which is the last thing the union movement and federal Labor need.

1 comment:

Grace Kelly said...

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