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I promised Daniel Hurst’s explainer on the fair work bill, which looks like it will be gutted by one Ricky Muir, onetime sawmiller and senator for the Australian Motoring Enthusiasts party. Daniel’s story is here:

The Coalition could be forced to accept the gutting of its workplace relations legislation in order to win Senate support for changes to enterprise bargaining on major new construction and mining projects.

Crossbench senators met with the employment minister, Eric Abetz, on Tuesday and have proposed amendments to remove most of the elements of the federal government’s stalled fair work amendment bill.

The original bill would have changed individual flexibility arrangements, wound back union right of entry rules, prevented absent people from taking or accruing leave when they were receiving workers’ compensation, and amended the procedures for the Fair Work Commission to consider unfair dismissal claims.