Globalizing Australia -- Globalization, national belonging, and national identity -- Multiculturalism, threat or opportunity? -- The dilemmas of settler/indigenous relations -- Asylum seekers : the politics of sympathy and the experience of globalization

This article examines the four major heads of power used by the Commonwealth in Australia to legislate in industrial relations. It outlines the constitutional limitations of each of these powers in establishing a national industrial relations system. The article then concentrates on the...