Footnotes

Chapter One - Majority Report

[1] Workplace Relations Amendment (Codifying Contempt Offences) Bill 2003, Explanatory Memorandum, p.8.

[2] Mr Tony Abbott, former Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Second Reading Speech, Workplace Relations Amendment (Codifying Contempt Offences) Bill 2002, 26 June 2003.

[3] Submission 2, LHMWU, p. 2.

[4] Submission 3, SDA, p. 3.

[5] Submission 1, ACCI, p. 11.

[6] Submission 7, Ai Group, p. 5.

[7] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 18.

[8] Ibid., p. 19.

[9] Submission 1, ACCI, p. 10.

[10] Submission 1, ACCI, p. 9.

[11] Submission 2, LHMWU, p. 2 -3.

[12] Mr John Ryan, SDA, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 18.

[13] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 19

[14] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 11.

[15] Submission 7, Ai Group, p. 12-13.

[16] Mr Tony Abbott, Second Reading Speech, Workplace Relations Amendment (Compliance with Court and Tribunal Orders) Bill 2003, 13 February 2003

[17] Workplace Relations Amendment (Compliance with Court and Tribunal Orders) Bill 2003, Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2.

[18] Submission 7, Ai Group, p. 6.

[19] Submission 5, CPSU, p. 2.

[20] Mr James Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 27.

[21] Submission 1, ACCI, p. 5.

[22] See Submission 7, Ai Group, p. 8.

[23] Mr Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, p. 23.

[24] Ms Linda Rubinstein, ACTU, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 3.

[25] Mr Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, p. 24.

[26] Mr Peter Alfred Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 9.

[27] Mr Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, p. 24.

[28] Mr Bob Bennett, DEWR, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 30.

[29] Submission 1, ACCI, p. 6.

[30] Ibid., p. 7.

[31] Mr Tony Abbott, former Minister Employment and Workplace Relations, Second Reading Speech, Workplace Relations Amendment (Improved Remedies for Unprotected Action) Bill 2002, 26 June 2002.

[32] Attorney-General’s Department, Workplace Relations Act, Reprint 5, 2003, p. 122-123.

[33] Submission 10, ACTU, p. 25-26

[34] Ibid., p. 26.

[35] Submission 7A, Ai Group, p. 2.

[36] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 21.

[37] Ibid., p. 24.

[38] Submission 5, CPSU, p. 4.

[39] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 21.

[40] Ibid., p. 29-30.

Chapter Two - Opposition Senators' Report

[1] Mr John Ryan, SDA, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 18.

[2] Mr James Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 24.

[3] Submission 11, ACTU, p. 7.

[4] Ms Linda Rubinstein, ACTU, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 3.

[5] Mr Glenn Thompson, AMWU, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 16.

[6] Ibid., p. 17.

[7] Ibid., p. 17.

[8] Mr Peter Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 12.

[9] Ibid, p. 15.

[10] Submission 11, ACTU, p. 23

[11] Mr Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, p. 11.

[12] Submission 11, ACTU, p. 20.

[13] Ibid., p. 22.

[14] Ms Rubinstein, ACTU, Hansard, p. 3.

[15] See submission 11, ACTU, p. 5 (ILO Standards); Mr John Ryan, SDA, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 17-18 (cultural changing from jailing unionists).

[16] Ms Rubinstein, ACTU, Hansard, p. 6.

[17] Mr Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, p. 9.

[18] Ibid., p. 10.

[19] Mr Bob Bennett, DEWR, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 34.

[20] Submission 11, ACTU, p. 13.

[21] Mr Bennett, DEWR, Hansard, p. 31.

[22] Mr Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, p. 31.

[23] Mr Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, p. 10.

[24] Mr Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, p. 13.

[25] Submission 11, ACTU, p. 25.

[26] Ms Rubinstein, ACTU, Hansard, p. 4.

[27] Ibid., p. 4.

[28] Submission 7A, Ai Group, p. 2.

[29] Mr Nolan, Ai Group, Hansard, p. 12-13.

[30] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 24.

[31] Ibid., p. 24.

[32] Mr Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, p. 33.

[33] Submission 11, ACTU, p. 26.

[34] Submission 8, DEWR, p. 29-30.

Chapter Three - Australian Democrats' Report

[1] Bills Digest, No. 33. 2002-03, p. 4.

[2] Mr James Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 33.

[3] Mr Smythe, DEWR, Hansard, p. 22.

[4] Democrat Minority Report, Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2000.

[5] Mr Smythe, DEWR Hansard, p. 23.

[6] Ms Natalie James, DEWR, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p.31 and Bills Digest No. 13 2003-04.

[7] Ms Linda Rubinstien, ACTU, Hansard, Canberra, 22 October 2003, p. 6.

[8] Bills Digest No. 13, 2003-04, p. 9.

[9] Bills Digest, No. 171, 2001-02, 24 June 2002.

[10] Bills Digest No. 134, 2002-03, p. 3.

[11] Ibid., p. 2.

[12] Ibid., p. 4.