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Australia is becoming an increasingly individualistic society and hence less collaborative. Nowhere in Australian society is this trend clearer than in the changes that have occurred in the Australian industrial relations system over the past quarter of a century. The Accords of the Hawke/Keating years, and the introduction of enterprise bargaining represented the first major shift away from the centralised wage fixing system in nearly a century.
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Barrett, S. (2013). Social Change and Teacher’s Pay. In: Excellence in Scholarship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-257-0_15
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