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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio

The Hon Julia Gillard MP

Minister for Education. Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Minister for Social Inclusion. Deputy Prime Minister

22 August, 2008

Media Release

Communique From Australian, State,Territory And New Zealand Workplace Relations Ministers Council

Today’s 77th meeting of the Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council (WRMC) in Sydney was conducted in the same spirit of cooperation that has been a defining feature of these meetings.

Ministers discussed the progress of the Australian Government’s workplace relations reform agenda, including the status of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission’s award modernisation process. Ministers welcomed the extensive stakeholder consultation that has been undertaken.

To read the full Communique

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