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Kirby renews his attack on "industrial ayatollahs"

Former High Court judge Michael Kirby has renewed his attack on the "industrial ayatollahs" who criticise Australia's IR system, deploring them as "dogmatists" who "learn nothing from the past", while he has also called for the ILO to take more action to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

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