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Behind Scott Morrison’s bold bid, outlined this week, for a consensus approach to the volatile industrial relations landscape is an unusually strong relationship between Attorney-General Christian Porter and ACTU Secretary Sally McManus.
While on the face of it, the two appear to have little in common, Michelle Grattan writes, Porter is a policy wonk and McManus is smart, sharp and knows what she’s talking about, enabling them to find a middle ground. At any rate, the strong relationship between the two is a bonus for Morrison in his bid for reform.
The government’s gambit is shrewd politics and may be canny economics, says UNSW economics professor Richard Holden.
He suggests Morrison may have realised his real power is not as an advocate but a broker, with his proposed process analogous to the Dayton Accords, the peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War in 1995. “Morrison’s gambit may not work,” Holden writes, “but it is certainly worth a shot.”
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Perhaps a silver-lining of the pandemic, the economic downturn has created a more constructive discourse between the minister for industrial relations and the unions.
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Federal industrial relations minister Christian Porter with Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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