Introduction Significant controversy surrounds the impact of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) in a number of areas. This report focuses on two of these areas by examining the ChAFTA’s provisions on labour mobility. The first area of controversy is whether the ChAFTA will enable Chinese workers to replace local workers in the Australian labour...

This report analyses the proposed Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Bill 2014 (Cth) (SRC Bill), and, for a number of key reasons, argues that the bill should be rejected. Overview The Bill will clearly disadvantage working Australians, small business and taxpayers. Workers will be disadvantaged as the SRC Bill provides less entitlements, has the least effective...