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This paper critically reviews the history of labour market deregulation in Australia-its rationale, the policy reforms and effects on the labour market-and the current debate. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, it argues that labour market deregulation has not delivered the benefits promised by advocates and further 'deregulation' will lead to further inequality and lower productivity growth without addressing the sources of unemployment.
The key findings of the paper can be summarised as follows. The term 'deregulation' as it has been used suggests that industrial relations can, in time, become unregulated. Such an outcome is impossible. Rules of some kind are necessary to maintain order in the workplace. Such rules can arise from sources internal or external to the workplace and be formal or informal in nature. In reality then the debate is not about whether there should be rules but about their source and the form they take. Advocates of deregulation seek to......

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