Tony Abbott is on the record twice this year as promising to bring back key elements of WorkChoices by cutting unfair dismissal protections for workers and reintroducing AWA-style individual contracts:
“…We had a mandate to take the unfair dismissal monkey off the back of small business and we will once more seek that mandate… We had a mandate to introduce statutory non-union contracts and we will seek to renew that mandate.”
Tony Abbott, 12 Feb 2010 address to Qld Chamber of Commerce and Industry
"I think if we have reasonable individual agreement arrangements, if we keep the unfair dismissal monkey off the back of very small business, if we have a strong cop on the beat, like the ABCC, I think we’ll have a productive, a fair and a free workplace."
Tony Abbott, 5 April 2010, Q&A, ABC TV
