Read speeches and opinion articles by ACTU officers and staff.
Our collection contains speeches delivered at conferences, forums, summits, rallies and events by Executive and senior ACTU staff. It also contains op eds – previously published in mainstream media – by the ACTU President, ACTU Secretary or ACTU Assistant Secretaries.
November 15, 2005
Remember this day. Remember this day. Because THIS is the start of something.
For more than 100 years Australia has had an industrial relations system that has given working people a share of the benefits of economic prosperity.
November 15, 2005
Today, by rallying in such huge numbers, we declare that working people will not be denied a central place in Australia’s future. Working families built this country. They fought and died for it.
November 2, 2005
Greg Combet outlined his critique of the Government’s new IR legislation in the context of the real economic challenges facing Australia.
October 24, 2005
On any measure the WorkChoices legislation will be bad law. Not just because it is unjustified by any credible economic argument. Not only because of the social impact, and the damage to our social cohesion and social progress.
October 24, 2005
The WorkChoices legislation & how poorly conceived these laws are, because it highlights the problem…
August 23, 2005
I would like to use the opportunity I have to speak to you by going straight to the heart of the Governments industrial relations changes, and why they fundamentally undermine employee rights.
July 6, 2005
On the 26th of May John Howard announced the Government’s plans to rewrite Australia’s industrial relations laws, arguing that this was “one of the great pieces of unfinished business in the structural transformation of the Australian economy”.
July 6, 2005
For the Howard Government industrial relations is the dog that ate their homework – the…
May 26, 2005
Let us cut through all the spin and verbal camouflage of all of this. What…
