Coalition lurches further to the right with war on workers

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Shadow employment and workplace relations minister Michaelia Cash has criticised the federal government’s upcoming jobs summit, claiming it will have union demands ‘rubber stamped’ at the expense of employers:

Unions are “taking advantage” of Labor’s federal election win and will use the government’s upcoming jobs summit to have their demands “rubber stamped” at the expense of employers, the Coalition has warned.

Opposition employment and workplace relations spokeswoman Michaelia Cash has lashed the government’s “talk of consensus and negotiation” in the lead up to the September gathering of businesses, unions and other stakeholders as hollow.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.