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Howard unveils radical second wave

The Prime Minister, John Howard, has today moved towards realising his long-held ambition to radically deregulate Australia's industrial relations system, announcing a series of measures in the Coalition's second wave of IR reform - including gutting the AIRC, lowering the benchmark for all agreement-making and removing the majority of employees' unfair dismissal entitlement - that goes even further than anticipated.

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