The law of work -- The law of work in the global era -- Australian law of work in transition -- The subject of the law of work -- Work relations and the limits of contract -- Rights and responsibilities under contract -- Work standards -- Equality and diversity at work -- Security at work --...

The Howard government’s draconian Work Choices laws will soon be history. A change of government at the 2007 federal election means that Australian industrial relations legislation will continue to be a turbulent field, for some time yet. This review provides an account of the last piece of...

In 2009, two major pieces of industrial legislation were enacted to give effect to the Labor Government’s commitment to replace Work Choices with laws for ‘Fair Work’. The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) promises to bring greater stability and simplicity to Australia’s workplace relations...

Australian employment contract law has been slow to recognise the duty of “good faith and fair dealing” now reliably recognised in the United Kingdom. This note considers an Australian decision that has recognised this duty – Russell v. Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the...

This chapter (prepared initially for a workshop on intellectual property law and innovation held at Bond University in 2007) mounts an argument for why the law on restrictive covenants in employment contracts in Australia should be reviewed, to re-enliven the ancient common law doctrine making...

Our laws - particularly the doctrines developed in the equitable jurisdiction - which privilege property owners have created expectations that employers of workers become the owners of the intellectual capital produced by labour. Presumptions in our intellectual property laws, and the...

Despite the promise of cataclysmic change, 2003 saw very few, and very moderate reforms to industrial laws. The great debates about a unitary industrial relations system, greater legal discipline for the building and construction industry, paid maternity leave, compulsory individual contracts in...