Like moths to a flame, the Liberal Party is drawn to picking fights over industrial relations. According to The Australian Financial Review’s Phillip Coorey, a group of backbenchers is champing [$] at the bit after a briefing last week from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and a rev-up at the weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference by Queensland LNP senator Amanda Stoker, who attacked unfair dismissal laws and blamed the complexity of awards for wage theft

.there are already signs of an ideologically driven agenda in the union-busting Ensuring Integrity Bill, which is being pitched as an answer to the militancy of the CFMMEU and its rogue Victorian secretary, John Setka. The Saturday Paper’s Mike Seccombe suggested recently that, given expert opinion that existing laws could provide a path to deregistration of the CFMMEU, Setka is “not the reason for the proposed legislation, but the excuse”.

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