
Australia is being taken on an imaginary excursion into a past dark age by the federal Opposition and some of its hyperventilating media allies over the suggestion workers should be given more leverage in negotiating their wages and conditions.
According to the scenario, Anthony Albanese is leading us all into a kind of industrial Jurassic Park where the trade unions like massive dinosaurs roamed the landscape unchallenged and trampled on lesser creatures like employers, small businesses and everyone else.