Development of labour law

1) What do you think have been the advantages of a centralised industrial relations regulatory system? Why did Australia start to move away from it from the mid-1980s?

2) What were the similarities and differences in the approaches to industrial relations regulation of the Labor and conservative parties in the 1990s? How different were they?

3) Discuss how the concepts of individualism and collectivism have been used in regulating industrial relations over the 1990s and 2000s. How has the use of each changed over this period?