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Reith rallies business, attacks building employers

Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith has written to Australia's leading industry bodies and its top 200 business executives inviting them to participate in the "emerging debate" on labour market reform. At the same time, he has launched a stinging attack on the Property Council of Australia for its lack of "steel" in the recent Victorian construction dispute, accusing it of raising the "white flag" and maintaining that "you couldn't be worse off than where you are today".