Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Majority Report

[1]        Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Safety Net Review Wages 1997, Section 7.6

[2]        Submission No.21, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, p.5

[3]        Submission No.4, ACTU, p.3

[4]        ibid., p.80

[5]        ibid.

[6]        Safety Net Review – Wages 2002-03, Commonwealth Submission, pp.79-81

[7]        Safety Net Review – Wages 2002-03, Commonwealth Submission, pp.79-81

[8]        ibid., p.25

[9]        ibid.

[10]      Submission No.18, AiGroup, p.35

[11]      ibid.

[12]      ibid., annexure 3, pp.38-39

[13]      Safety Net Review – Wages 2002-03, Commonwealth Submission, pp.79-81

[14]      Submission No 1, Australian Restaurants and Catering, p.6

[15]      ibid.

[16]      Submission No 11, ACCI, pp.4-5

[17]      Submission No.18, Australian Industry Group (AiGroup), p.5

[18]      See Hansard transcript, 27 May 2003, pp3-5

[19]      Submission No.4, ACTU, p.16

[20]      Submission No.18, AiGroup, pp.15-16

[21]      Submission No.10, ACCI, p.26

[22]      Submission No.21, DEWR, p.4

[23]      Mr James Smythe, Hansard, p.39

[24]      Hon Tony Abbott MP, Hansard (House of Representatives), 13 February 2003

[25]      Submission No.4, ACTU, p.1

[26]      Submission No.4, ACTU, p.10

[27]      EM, p.2

[28]      Submission No.11, ACCI, p.3

[29]      Safety Net Review, Wages Decision, May 20201, Print PR002001, [140], ACCI, p.10

[30]      Submission No.21, DEWR, p.6

[31]      WR Act, Section Part VI Division 1, 88B

[32]      Submission No.11, ACCI, pp. 5-6

[33]      Submission No.21, DEWR pp.6-7

[34]      ibid.

Chapter 2 - Opposition Senators' Report

[1]        Submission no: 23, Queensland Government, pp.7-8

[2]        2003 Safety Net Review decision, Print PR002003, para 175

[3]        Submission no.23, Queensland Government, p.8

[4]        ibid., p.1

[5]        Submission no.4, ACTU, p.14

[6]         Sue Richardson ‘Low Wage Jobs & Pathways to Better Outcomes’, National Institute of Labour Studies, Monograph Series No 7, 2002, Flinders University, Adelaide.

[7]        Submission no.23, Queensland Government, p.12

[8]        Submission no.19, APESMA, p.19

[9]        Submission no.22, Victorian Government, p.20

[10]       Submission no.4, ACTU, p.16

Chapter 3 - Australian Democrats' Report

[1]        Submission 4 - ACTU pg 3

[2]        Safety Net Review-Wages April 1999  PR00 2002  para 108

[3]        Submission 4  - ACTU

[4]        Hansard EWRE p. 17 Tuesday 27 May 2003

[5]        As has the Government, interestingly. Hansard EWRE p.3, Tuesday 27 May 2003

[6]        AiGroup, Submission 18, page 6

[7]        Refer Keating and Lambert, “Improving incentive: Changing the interface of tax and social security”, Australian Economic Review, 281-289.

[8]        ‘Is the Earnings Credit the best way to cut dole queues? Centre for Independent Studies, 13 May 2003.

[9]        Peter Saunders, ‘Threshold Issues for a Tax System that creates job’, The Australian Financial Review, 17-21 April

[10]       ACOSS Info 347 – June 2003 Page 4.