In 2004, Access Economics, the preferred economic modeller of the Australian Labor Party, had this to say after it released a major study into the Labor Party’s industrial relations policy:

The likely outcome  is lower productivity growth and less accurate matching of wages and productivity at the enterprise level.

Yesterday, the Chief Operating Officer of Austral in Western Australia, one of the most outstanding examples of Australian incentive and ingenuity—located, I believe, in the electorate of Brand, represented by the Leader of the Opposition—