Forces of reform...oops, I mean reaction!

The Howard Government's proposed industrial relations changes are losing support, it would seem, day by day. The unions, the churches, and now the academic economists are expressing concern about the proposals for so-called industrial relations reform. Professor Mark Wooden, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research at the University of Melbourne, has raised a number of concerns in a speech to the Economic Society of Australia which can be seen here.