[UMA-SR-000000866] ACC 11 Industrial Relations Sub-Committee Files

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IdentifierUMA-SR-000000866Extent17 filesScope and ContentThe Industrial Relations Sub-Committee was formed by the Standing Committee in 1983. The following resolution adopted that year at the plenary session of the ACC was referred by the Standing Committee to the Industrial Relations Sub-Committee:

That this Convention recommends that the Standing Committee of the Australian Constitutional Convention consider and report to the next plenary session on the present operations and limitations of section 51 (xxxv) with a view to providing, whether by way of referendum, reference of State powers, interchange of State and Commonwealth powers or otherwise, a more appropriate distribution of responsibility between the Commonwealth and the States with respect to or arising out of or in connection with the terms and conditions of employment and analogous relations.

In the course of its work, the Industrial Relations Sub-Committee requested information from relevant Commonwealth and State Ministers concerning work already done in this field, and invited submissions. Papers were commissioned from Professor Di Yerbury, Mr Malcolm Gray and Professor C.P. Mills. The Sub-Committee was able to obtain additional papers and information from a variety of sources.

In 1983 the Federal Government appointed a Committee of Review into Australian Industrial Relations Law and Systems, also known as the Hancock Committee. There was some debate about whether the Industrial Relations Sub-Committee should suspend its deliberations pending the report of the Hancock Committee due in March 1985. The Sub-Committee met in June and October 1983, a meeting scheduled for December 1983 was cancelled, and a long time elapsed before its next meeting in August 1984. The Sub-Committee presented an interim report to the plenary session of the ACC at Brisbane in July - August 1985 and asked to be allowed to continue its work now that the Hancock Report had become available (see Convention Proceedings and ACC 15 File No. 59). The Convention resolved that the new Australian Constitutional Convention Council should establish a sub-group to give further consideration to industrial relations matters.

Another motion relating to industrial relations was moved at the Brisbane Convention by Lance Milne, who drew the attention of the Convention to the Austrian Parity Commission (or Social Partnership) on which he had written a paper (see Convention Proceedings and ACC 15 File No. 60).

This series of files contains:

Agendas, Minutes and Correspondence: Agendas and minutes of meetings of the

Industrial Relations Sub-Committee, correspondence of the Sub-Committee (and letters concerning the proposed Industrial Relations Sub-Group), together with membership lists and various other papers. The correspondence includes letters to/from the Chief Executive Officer, the Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, the Secretary to the Industrial Relations Sub-Committee (Richard Kleinig), the Chairman of the Sub-Committee (Senator Nick Bolkus), and Research Officer Vanessa Mitchell.

Papers: A range of research and background papers, including certain papers commissioned by the Sub-Committee, submissions to the Hancock Inquiry, and other material relating to industrial relations.

Note: The interim report of the Industrial Relations Sub-Committee, 30 July 1985 ('Precis of work of Industrial Relations Sub-Committee'), can be found with papers of the Brisbane plenary session in ACC 15 (File No. 59).Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Series

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CreatorAustralian Constitutional ConventionRoleProvenance

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CreatorFinemore, JohnRoleProvenance

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Date1972-1985

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Descriptive NoteNote: There is a heavy overlap between ACC 11 and the papers in series ACC 29 on Item 4 (c) (industrial relations) which was referred to Standing Committee A by the 1973 Convention. ACC 29 includes papers connected with the work of the Industrial Relations Sub- Committee.

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Preceding Series[UMA-SR-000000858] ACC 3 Standing Committee 'A' FilesRelated Series[UMA-SR-000000862] ACC 7 Standing Committee Files[UMA-SR-000000870] ACC 15 Plenary Sessions Files[UMA-SR-000000874] ACC 19 Printed Proceedings, Reports and Papers[UMA-SR-000000884] ACC 29 Papers on Agenda Items[UMA-SR-000000890] ACC 35 Papers re the Origins, Organisation and Achi

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[UMA-SR-000000866] ACC 11 Industrial Relations Sub-Committee Files