COVID-19 has exposed the poor health of our national wage system, and workers and small business owners are paying for it with their jobs and enterprises. By James Mathias.
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Companies that need to focus on merely staying afloat are being hit by a rapidly increasing number of class actions. By James Mathias.
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The coronavirus has arrived in Australia just as class actions are becoming increasingly profitable and popular. The people who benefit most are likely to be lawyers. By James Mathias.
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Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has placed a dubious legal reform in front of the medical crisis that is preoccupying every other politician in the world. By James Mathias.
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The Victorian Government wants to allow lawyers to take a bigger cut of the damages in class-action cases. But the profits in this low-risk sector are already high. By James Mathias.
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A lobby group has identified a minor barrier to women becoming tradies while ignoring the key reason: two female Senators and the CFMEU. By James Mathias.
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Australians instinctively vote for the unifying policies of conservatives over Labor’s divisiveness, says James Mathias, and the nation is stronger for it.
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The ‘national experts’ who gave Australia a woeful ranking in the latest list of climate pariah states are not exactly impartial analysts, says James Mathias.
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Criminal convictions are treated differently in the corporate and union worlds. And it’s not the corporate bosses who are given the privileges. By James Mathias.
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For bureaucrats trying to review the Fair Work Act, and employers who must comply with it, understanding our awards system is an impossibly complex job.
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New state laws are introducing harsh penalties for bosses perceived to have contributed to a worker’s or even client’s death. Do they go too far? James Mathias says they do.
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You almost need a PhD in industrial relations law to decipher the awards negotiated by some unions. No wonder some managers are confused.
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Unions are unfairly leveraging their privileged status, the MRC's James Mathias tells the Senate Inquiry into the Fair Work Laws Amendment Bill in Melbourne.
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Some union bosses think they shouldn’t be encumbered by the rules that apply to other office bearers. Legislative reform is overdue.
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The Four Corners investigation into the Murray-Darling scheme typically targeted big business while ignoring the benefits to the river and small operators, says James Mathias.
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Sir John Carrick AC KCMG said life is a ‘limitless adventure’. His own life, as a soldier, POW and Senator, is testimony to it. By James Mathias and Fred Pawle.
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Unpaid student debt continues to skyrocket as the Government writes off yet more loans as losses. By James Mathias.
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Bill Shorten has conjured up a policy about vocational training that merely repairs the damage Labor did. By James Mathias.
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