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Industrial Legislation in 1998

The year 1998 was relatively quiet for amendments to legislation regulating workplace relations in Australia. Several jurisdictions were characterised by numerous minor amendments to their principal industrial relations statute. These alterations were in the nature of fine-tuning, rather than a redirection of legislative schemes. In this sense 1998 was similar to 1997. As also occurred in 1997, but for different reasons, the amendments that came into effect in Queensland and Western Australia were arguably of a different nature. In Queensland the newly elected Labor government brought about the enactment of legislation to halt reform in that state. In Western Australia, some of the more controversial aspects of that state’s second wave of