Greg Combet slams Tony Abbott's climate change, workplace policies
by Michael Gordon, SMH Abbott's been criticising the Fair Work legislation that Labor implemented that protects people, when it's a little known fact that labour productivity has been improving quite significantly over the last couple of years and is almost three times as high under the Fair Work legislation than it was under WorkChoices. We've now got the benefit of the clean energy package and the carbon price being in place for over a year and, putting politics aside, it's worthwhile considering facts – and the facts are showing us that emissions in the national electricity market are down and that emissions from the emissions-intensive power stations in Victoria are down significantly and that renewable energy generation is up 30 per cent.