TY - Commentary AU - Tim Colebatch PY - 2017 T1 - A penalty lifted off the economy PB - Inside Story DO - https://doi.org/APO-74046 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/74046 AB - NOTHING is more central to Labor’s view of what makes Australia such a great place to live in than our long tradition of having an independent umpire to stop employers exploiting workers. Former Liberal prime minister Sir Robert Menzies shared that view; like others in the centre-left and centre-right, he argued that it was a key to Australia’s relative harmony and social equality compared to Britain or the United States. ER -