Australian Financial Review Political Editor Philip Coorey says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese now faces an industrial relations war as businesses “are vowing” to unite against the Labor government’s new work rules.
“The groups are vowing to take this to the election if need be … as they said today ‘we’re not going to do this for one or two weeks then go away’,” he told Sky News Australia.
“They’re vowing and they’ve got plenty of dough and they’ll go all the way between now and the next election if they have to.”
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