Former Prime Minister John Howard has urged a return to individual employment contracts.

A few quotes from a speech to a Westpac forum by Former Prime Minister John Howard, it comes from an article in the  "Financial Review" dated  27/08/12:

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"Former Prime Minister John Howard has urged Tony Abbott’s Coalition to return to the individual employment contracts of the Work Choices era"

"I think we have to address this issue again. There is no reason why this country should not go back to the workplace system we had between 1996 and 2005 where you had individual contracts."

 "Mr Howard suggested that Mr Abbott was locked into opposing the carbon tax for political reasons at the expense of business certainty"

"Pressed during the question and answer session on Mr Abbott’s unrelenting political campaign against the carbon tax and whether the opposition leader should shift his position to give business certainty, Mr Howard effectively admitted the Opposition Leader’s hands were tied by political, rather than policy factors."
 

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 It is interesting to see what is running through little Johnny's mind, there would have to be a lot more Members of the Coalition who would like to see the return of Work Choices in some form to. And like before it will reduce working conditions and wages, it is in the Liberals DNA to bring back a form of Work Choices in the future.

Also if that's the case in regard to the Carbon Tax, Tony Abbott is condemning it because of political reasons and not scientific research, that really says a lot about the man, who is playing politics with future generations of Australian lives.