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    Has Australia’s Road to Workplace Partnership Reached a Dead End?

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    Authors
    Townsend, K.
    Wilkinson, A.
    Burgess, John
    Brown, Kerry
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Townsend, Keith and Wilkinson, Adrian and Burgess, John and Brown, Kerry. 2013. Has Australia’s Road to Workplace Partnership Reached a Dead End? International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 29 (2): pp. 239-256.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
    Additional URLs
    http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=IJCL2013016
    ISSN
    0952-617X
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8276
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Over the last fifteen years, a number of developed countries have pursued an agenda seeking to develop more collaborative management-union arrangements often labelled as partnerships. This article reviews the Australian road to partnerships by situating it within the context of developments in the UK and New Zealand. In 2009, Australia’s then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, suggested that Australian Industrial Relations were about to undergo a shift towards a new model of workplace interaction that included more collaboration and partnerships. We argue that rather than a substantial shift, this approach can be viewed as an evolution from the Accord years, disrupted for a period by the Howard Government. However, unlike similar regulatory regimes in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, the Australian Government has done little to entrench a system of partnerships at the workplace level. This article assesses the extent to which collaboration and partnership in Australia’s modern IR system provides a roadmap to a new Australian IR landscape, or whether the failure of policy-makers to act has led to a dead-end for Australian partnerships. The practical implications of this agenda for the conduct of industrial relations are considered.

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