ICA Executive Director Ken Phillips spoke at a ‘Liberty’ conference in Sydney over the weekend. With over 350 people in attendance and with more than 70 speakers it was a stimulating, ideas-packed weekend. Not everyone agreed with each other, but all present agreed on the right to speak freely.
Ken talked about how we at ICA have used the Australian Constitution to defend individual liberty, specifically the right of people to be self-employed. You might recall last year our: More...
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The Australian Constitution protecting our freedoms
Are owner-drivers at risk again? And what about Uber employees?
Owner-drivers
You’ll recall the mess last year in the attempts to destroy the businesses of owner-drivers in Australia.
However, the Victorian government is now reviewing its owner-driver laws, laws that we say are pretty good as they stand. We don’t think the review is looking to set up price-fixing as happened under the disbanded federal law. But Federal Labor voted to keep the disbanded laws. Who knows what the Victorian Labor government’s agenda might be? We urge owner-drivers to keep a close eye on this. More...
Notable highlights from 2016
A very big Season’s Greetings to all ICA members, supporters, friends and contributors—of which there are many! 2016 has been an impressive year in terms of achieving positive outcomes for self-employed people. More...
Union/Big business flim-flammery (again)
Yesterday, The Australian carried an article reporting that the AMWU wants to ‘represent’ independent contractors. The article quoted Ken Phillips (our Executive Director) who said: More...
Sometimes politics in a democracy is messy. So what to do?
The Australian election outcome is in line with the messiness that’s happening with democratic politics across the globe. It’s good that ‘the people rule'! But what of decision-making?
Sometimes positive things can happen through the political process. We were very pleased with: More...
Pre-election thanks to Senators Day and Leyonhjelm
Last week we released a statement on the election saying that
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Election 2016: Assessment of the parties’ small business positions
In all past federal elections Independent Contractors Australia has sought to detail and explain each party’s policy and positions as they affect small business people. We express our conclusions to help people draw their own conclusions.
In this 2016 election we draw the following conclusions: More...
Self-employed update: Do we really need saving from ourselves?
At ICA, we come across all sort of weird attacks on the self-employed. But one of the strangest is that we ‘screw over ourselves’. That was the argument mounted in California’s self-described ‘premier monthly business publication’, Comstock.
The ‘save us from ourselves’ argument was essentially the justification for Australia’s recent (fortunately failed) attempt to destroy the businesses of 35,000 owner-drivers. Lawyers are preparing the case for the class action to recover losses. Info here. More...
More juice in the truckies’ tank. Compensation. High Court. High Politics
The ‘truckies’ story just seems to keep movin’.
As we revealed the other week, Bill Shorten has vowed to reintroduce the RSRT Act if he wins government.
If Shorten wins and does this, we will re-launch our constitutional challenge. I explained in The Australian how we view the legal issues and why we will remount a challenge. More...
'Dangerous idiots intent on destroying small business people'
We at ICA had thought that after the huge campaign against the ‘evil’ road ‘safety’ laws we could move on to other issues. But no! Labor leader Bill Shorten announced today his intention to bring back the repealed laws if he wins government at the next election.
As a consequence of this ‘idiocy’ on their part, we can only describe Shorten’s Labor and their Transport Workers Union partners as ‘dangerous idiots intent on destroying small business people’. More...
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