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Principle and Practice in Commonwealth Industrial Arbitration : A Further Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2025

K. Sloane  and
D. W. Smith
K. Sloane
Affiliation:
School of General Studies, Australian National University.
D. W. Smith
Affiliation:
School of General Studies, Australian National University.
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In the first issue of this journal, Mr R. E. McGarvie, Q.C., examined, ‘from a lawyer's viewpoint the way in which Commonwealth industrial arbitration is operating sixty years after the commencement …’ of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Limiting himself ‘to an examination of the working of the Commission in the exercise of its arbitral powers’ he nevertheless acknowledged that the system, the tribunal and the concept of Commonwealth industrial arbitration have been subject to a variety of criticisms.

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Federal Law Review , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1964 , pp. 202 - 220
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© 1964 The Australian National University

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References

1 ‘Principle and Practice in Commonwealth Industrial Arbitration after Sixty Years’ (1964) 1 F.L. Rev. 47, 50.

2 Ibid. 51.

3 Ibid. 50.

4 Kornhauser, Dubin and Ross, Industrial Conflict (1954) 3.

5 Ibid. 6.

6 Ibid. 22.

7 Ibid. 14.

8 Convention Debates, Melbourne 1898, Vol. 1, 180 cited in the Report from the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review 1959, para. 640.

9 (1950) 82 C.L.R. 54, 93–95.

10 Hancock, ‘Compulsory Arbitration versus Collective Bargaining: Three Recent Assessments’ (1962) 4 Journal of Industrial Relations 20, 21.

11 Isaac, ‘Dr. Hancock on Collective Bargaining’ (1962) 4 Journal of Industrial Relations 141, 144.

12 Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’ (1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 349.

13 Hancock, op. cit. 28.

14 Isaac, ‘Dr. Hancock on Collective Bargaining’ (1962) 4 Journal of Industrial Relations 141, 145.

15 Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’ (1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 349.

16 Ibid.

17 Hancock, op. cit. 25.

18 Laffer, ‘Compulsory Arbitration and Collective Bargaining’ (1962) 4 Journal of Industrial Relations 146, 148.

19 Hancock, op. cit. 29.

20 Isaac, ‘Dr. Hancock on Collective Bargaining’ (1962) 4 Journal of Industrial Relations 141, 145. Also Laffer, op. cit. 147.

21 Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’ (1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 350.

22 Hancock, op. cit. 24, 30.

23 Kerr and Siegel, ‘The Interindustry Propensity to Strike—An International Comparison’ in Kornhauser, Dubin and Ross, Industrial Conflict (1954) 189–212.

24 Walker, Industrial Relations in Australia (1956) 374.

25 Op. cit. para. 691. XXXIV

26 Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’ (1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 355.

27 Ibid.

28 Hancock, op. cit. 26.

29 Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’ (1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 355.

30 Isaac, ‘Penal Provisions under Commonwealth Arbitration’ (1963) 5 Journal of Industrial Relations 110–119.

31 Ibid.; Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’(1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 350; Laffer, ‘Problems of Australian Compulsory Arbitration’ (1958) LXXVII International Labour Review 417, 430.

32 Wootten, ‘The Community's Interest in Trade Unions’ in Trade Unions in Australia (1959) edited by John Wilkes and S. E. Benson, 89, 109–110.

33 Ibid. 111.

34 Laffer, ‘Problems of Australian Compulsory Arbitration’ (1958) LXXVII international Labour Review 417, 430.

35 Wootten, op. cit. 111.

36 Isaac, ‘The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia’ (1958) XXXIV Economic Record 347, 352–353.

37 (1959) 103 C.L.R. 30, 52.

38 McGarvie, op. cit. 49.

39 Isaac, 4 The Machinery of an Incomes Policy’ in Wages and Incomes (Sixth Autumn Forum of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Victorian Branch, 1964) 44, 48.

40 This comment would apply particularly to Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway and, to a lesser degree, Britain.

41 E.g., Isaac, ‘The Machinery of an Incomes Policy’ 44.

42 In the Australian context see Downing and Isaac ‘The 1961 Basic Wage Judgment and Wage Policy’ (1961) 37 Economic Record 480, 492–494.

43 E.g., ibid.

44 McGarvie, op. dt. 65.

45 Cochane, ‘Aims of an Incomes Policy’ and Isaac, ‘The Machinery of an Incomes Policy,’ in Wages and Incomes (Sixth Autumn Forum of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Victorian Branch, 1964) 8 and 44.

46 McGarvie, op. cit. 64.

47 Isaac, ‘The Machinery of an Incomes Policy 47.

48 Laffer, ‘Compulsory Arbitration and Collective Bargaining’ (1962) 4 Journal °f Industrial Relations 146, 146–147.

49 McGarvie, op. cit. 75.

50 Isaac, ‘The Function of Wage Policy: The Australian Experience’ (1958) LXXII Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 129.

51 Hancock, op. cit. 30–31.

52 Isaac, ‘Dr. Hancock on Collective Bargaining’ and Laffer, ‘Compulsory Arbitration and Collective Bargaining’ (1962) 4 Journal of Industrial Relations 141 and 146.

53 Op. cit. paras 748–750.

54 McGarvie, op. cit. 52.

55 Roberts, Industrial Relations: Contemporary Problems and Perspectives (1962) 26.