Footnotes

Chapter 2 - Government Senators' Report

[1]        Caroline Overington, 'Prosper or suffer long at work', 10 March 2007, Weekend Australian, p. 4; Mark Wooden, 'Renewed push to regulate overtime is overkill', 13 March 2007, The Australian, p. 14.

[2]        Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Economic Survey of Australia, July 2006, www.oecd.org/document/28/0,2340,en_33873108_33873229_37147228_1_1_1_1, 00.html (accessed 22 May 2007).

[3]        Professor Andrew Stewart, Submission 11, p. 2.

[4]        The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, Submission 8, pp. 1-2.

[5]        Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 6, pp. 33-34.

[6]        Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 6, p. 35.

[7]        Australian Industry Group, Submission 10, p. 18.

[8]        National Farmers Federation, Submission 5, p. 2.

[9]        Australian Industry Group, Submission 10, p. 23.

[10]      Australian Council of Trade Unions, Submission 4, p. 22.

[11]      Community and Public Sector Union, Submission 3, p. 1.

[12]      National Farmers Federation, Submission 5, p. 3.

[13]      Australian Industry Group, Submission 10, p. 20.

[14]      Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Submission 6, p. 36.

[15]      Australian Council of Trade Unions, Submission 4, p. 21.

[16]      Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Submission 7, p. 4.

[17]      Australian Council of Trade Unions, Submission 4, pp. 19-20; Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Submission 7, p. 5; Professor Andrew Stewart, Submission 11, p. 2.

[18]      Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Submission 7, p. 5.

[19]      Australian Industry Group, Submission 10, p. 21.

[20]      Australian Council of Trade Unions, Submission 4, p. 21.

[21]      Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Submission 7, p. 3.

Chapter 3 - Opposition Senators' Report

[1]        Families Australia, Submission 60 to the 2005 Work Choices Inquiry, pp 2-3.

[2]        Relationships Forum Australia, An Unexpected Tragedy: Evidence for the connection between working hours and family breakdown in Australia, March 2007, p. 34; These findings were also consistent with an earlier study by Barbara Pocock and Sara Charlesworth, "Work and Family beyond 'WorkChoices': Establishing the Partnership", 17 May 2006, Presentation to the Roundtable Work, Family and Industrial Relations: Making It Work, p. 7.

Chapter 4 - Family First Dissenting Report

[1]        Australian Industry Group, Submission 9, page 22.

[2]        Mr Barklamb, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Senate Committee Hansard, 8 June 2007, page 19.